TY - GEN AU - Mendes, Armando B. AU - Da Silva, Emiliana L. D. G. Soares AU - Santos, Jorge M. Azevedo TI - Efficiency measures in the agricultural sector: with applications SN - 9789400757387 U1 - 300.18 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Economics KW - Agriculture - Economic aspects N2 - Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector opens with detailed descriptions of measurement techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), which are often used to support models in analysis of agricultural productivity, based on mathematical programming (non-parametric, non-stochastic) models or econometric (stochastic, parametric) models. ER -