eat: An R Package for fitting Efficiency Analysis Trees

eat is a new package for R that includes functions to estimate production frontiers and technical efficiency measures through non-parametric techniques based upon regression trees. The package specifically implements the main algorithms associated with a recently introduced methodology for estimatin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Esteve, Miriam, España Roch, Víctor Javier, Aparicio, Juan, Barber i Vallés, Josep Xavier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
Repositorio:REDIUMH. Depósito Digital de la UMH
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.umh.es:11000/38613
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11000/38613
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:efficiency analysis trees
technical efficiency
regression trees
random forest
production frontier
R programming
CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::31 - Demografía. Sociología. Estadística::311 - Estadística
CDU::5 - Ciencias puras y naturales::51 - Matemáticas::517 - Análisis
CDU::0 - Generalidades.::04 - Ciencia y tecnología de los ordenadores. Informática.
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Sumario:eat is a new package for R that includes functions to estimate production frontiers and technical efficiency measures through non-parametric techniques based upon regression trees. The package specifically implements the main algorithms associated with a recently introduced methodology for estimating the efficiency of a set of decision-making units in Economics and Engineering through Machine Learning techniques, called Efficiency Analysis Trees (Esteve et al. 2020). The package includes code for estimating input- and output-oriented radial measures, input- and output-oriented Russell measures, the directional distance function and the weighted additive model, plotting graphical representations of the production frontier by tree structures, and determining rankings of importance of input variables in the analysis. Additionally, it includes the code to perform an adaptation of Random Forest in estimating technical efficiency. This paper describes the methodology and implementation of the functions, and reports numerical results using a real data base application.