Benchmarking (version 0.27)

excess: Excess input compared over frontier input

Description

Excess input compared over frontier input and/or less output than frontier/transformation/optimal output.

Usage

excess(object, X = NULL, Y = NULL)

Arguments

object

A Farrell object as returned from functions like dea, dea.direct, linksdea, and mea.

X

Input matrix, only neccesary for ordinary input Farrell efficiency

Y

Ouput matrix , only neccesary for ordinary output Farrell efficiency

Value

Return a matrix with exces input and/or less output.

Details

For Farrell input efficiency E the exess input is \((1-E) X\) and for Farrell ouput efficiency F the missing output is \((F-1) Y\).

For directional efficiency e in the direction D the excess input is \(e D\).

If a firm is outside the technology set, as could be the case when calculating super-efficiencies, the Farrell input efficiency is larger then 1 and then the excess values are negative.

References

Peter Bogetoft and Lars Otto; Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R; Springer 2011

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- matrix(c(100,200,300,500,100,200,600),ncol=1)
y <- matrix(c(75,100,300,400,25,50,400),ncol=1)

e <- dea(x,y)
excess(e,x)
x - eff(e) * x

e <- dea(x,y, ORIENTATION="graph")
excess(e, x, y)
x - eff(e) * x
1/eff(e) * y -y

me <- mea(x,y)
excess(me)
# }