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Kaoru Tone
Researcher at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Publications - 158
Citations - 22839
Kaoru Tone is an academic researcher from National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data envelopment analysis & Returns to scale. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 155 publications receiving 19616 citations. Previous affiliations of Kaoru Tone include Heriot-Watt University & Saitama University.
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DEA Scores’ Confidence Intervals with Past-Present and Past-Present-Future Based Resampling
Kaoru Tone,Jamal Ouenniche +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two resampling models were proposed to estimate the confidence intervals of DEA scores for a dataset composed of Japanese municipal hospitals using Lucas series (a variant of Fibonacci series).
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A search model with subjective judgments: Auditing of incorrect tax declarations
S Iwasaki,Kaoru Tone +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new search model to deal with public sector decisions in which intangible factors need to be considered along with tangible ones such problems are often found in a wide range of administrative investigations and criminal inspections in Japan.
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Forecasting Models Evaluation using A Slacks-based Context-dependent DEA Framework
TL;DR: A slacks-based context-dependent DEA framework is proposed and used to rank forecasting models of oil prices’ volatility and it is shown that this approach can be applied to solve the problem of conflicting ranks in forecasting models.
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Finding a maximal element of a non-negative convex set through its characteristic cone: an application to finding a strictly complementary solution
TL;DR: In this paper, a conical representation of a set in the Euclidean space is presented and a convex programming based framework for determining a maximal element of a non-negative convex set is established.
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Application of Network DEA Model to Vertically Integrated Electric Utilities
Miki Tsutsui,Kaoru Tone +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the management efficiency of vertically integrated electric companies, which consist of several divisions, such as generation, transmission, distribution, and so forth, was examined, and a constrained network DEA model was proposed to obtain more practical efficiency index.