deaR (version 1.4.1)

Electric_plants: Data: Färe, Grosskopf and Kokkelenberg (1989).

Description

Data of 19 coal-fired steam-electric generating plants operating in Illinois in 1978. Each plant uses 3 inputs to produce 1 output.

Usage

data("Electric_plants")

Format

Data frame with 18 rows and 5 columns. Definition of inputs (X) and outputs (Y):

x1 = Labor

Labor average annual employment

x2 = Fuel

Fuel \(10^{10}\) Btu

x3 = Capital

Capital MW (fixed input)

y1 = Output

Output \(10^6\) Kwh

Author

Vicente Coll-Serrano (). Quantitative Methods for Measuring Culture (MC2). Applied Economics.

Vicente Bolos (). Department of Business Mathematics

Rafael Benitez (). Department of Business Mathematics

University of Valencia (Spain)

See Also

make_deadata, model_basic

Examples

# Example. Replication of results in Simar and Wilson (1998, p.59)
data("Electric_plants")
data_example <- make_deadata(Electric_plants,
                             dmus = 1,
                             ni = 3,
                             no = 1)
result <- model_basic(data_example,
                      orientation = "io",
                      rts = "vrs")
efficiencies(result)