Search for dissertations about: "ordinal output"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words ordinal output.

  2. 1. Essays on the Performance of Fire and Rescue Services

    Author : Henrik Jaldell; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; efficiency; productivity; public sector; intermediate output; panel data; stochastic frontier; data envelopment analysis DEA ; Malmquist; ordinal output; ordered probit;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction and five separate papers. All papers deal with measuring performance for the Swedish fire and rescue services. The first paper describes the production process of fire safety, while Papers 2-5 are empirical analyses measuring performance for some aspects of that process. READ MORE

  4. 2. From health outcomes to value assessments : preference-based evaluation of interventions and valuation of productivity costs among working adults

    Author : Emmanuel Aboagye; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Background: This thesis applies value assessment frameworks to non-specific low back pain (LBP) in a working population to evaluate health outcomes and to estimate productivity costs. LBP is a common diagnosis in primary health care. READ MORE