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These are publications listed in RePEc written by members of the above institution who are registered with the RePEc Author Service. Thus this compiles the works all those currently affiliated with this institutions, not those affilated at the time of publication. List of registered members. Register yourself. This page is updated in the first days of each month. | LINE NiEEwU ENGLAND Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis CEPA Working Papers A Guide to DEAP Version A Data Envelopment Analysis Computer Program Coelli . No. 8 96 CEPA Working Papers Department of Econometrics University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Australia. http econometrics ISSN 1327-435X ISBN 1 86389 4969 A Guide to DEAP Version A Data Envelopment Analysis Computer Program by Tim Coelli Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Department of Econometrics University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Australia. Email tcoelli@ Web http econometrics CEPA Working Paper 96 08 ABSTRACT This paper describes a computer program which has been written to conduct data envelopment analyses DEA for the purpose of calculating efficiencies in production. The methods implemented in the program are based upon the work of Rolf Fare Shawna Grosskopf and their associates. Three principal options are available in the computer program. The first involves the standard CRS and VRS DEA models that involve the calculation of technical and scale efficiencies which are outlined in Fare Grosskopf and Lovell 1994 . The second option considers the extension of these models to account for cost and allocative efficiencies. These methods are also outlined in Fare et al 1994 . The third option considers the application of Malmquist DEA methods to panel data to calculate indices of total factor productivity TFP change technological change technical efficiency change and scale efficiency change. These latter methods are discussed in Fare Grosskopf Norris and Zhang 1994 . All methods are available in either an input or an output orientation with the exception of the cost efficiencies option . 1. I NTRODUCTION This guide describes a computer program which has been written to conduct data envelopment analyses DEA . DEA involves the use of linear programming methods to construct a non-parametric piecewise