total offive variables in the frontierestimate: three input types in dollars, output in number of patient-days, andquality in estimated HSMR values.
So this is the model translated as:
number of patient-days(by hospital*) = HSMR value(ratio) + capital prices($) + labor($) + materials($)
deterministic
Is appropriate the use of a deterministic model here? It seems to me that it will be less accurate than a probabilistic one, and that that could influence the results of the comparison of the different aggregation levels biasing the conclusions.
quality-adjusted frontier analysis are available inEckermann and Coelli (2013).
*Interesting reference for reviewing!
Details of the estimationprocess can be found in operations research textbooks (e.g., Banker, Charnes,and Cooper 1984; Ramanathran and Ramanathan 2003)
*Interesting reference for reviewing!