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The Measurement of Productive Efficiency
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Metadata
- Authors
- Farrell, M. J.
- Venue
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1957
- Volume
- 120
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 253
- ISSN
- 0035-9238 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2162180338
- Cited by
- 16,038
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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