A bootstrapped robust data envelopment analysis model for efficiency estimating of telecommunication companies in Iran

One of the primary concerns in measuring the relative efficiency of a telecommunication unit compared with other similar units is the uncertainty on input/output data. In this paper, a bootstrapped robust data envelopment analysis (BRDEA) model is proposed to measure the efficiency of telecommunication companies. The proposed method is capable of handling different issues such as the uncertainty in data or sampling errors. The model is examined using some real data from a telecommunication company. First, the data from 24 telecommunication companies are assumed with uncertainty and the efficiency of telecommunication companies are estimated using a robust DEA model. Then, the results of the efficiencies are corrected by a bootstrapping technique. The results indicate that the BRDEA method considers the perturbation in data and sampling error with an adaptation of bootstrapped robust data envelopment analysis and could be more reliable for efficiency estimating strategies.

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