Title Evolutionary Product Unit Logistic Regression: The Case of Agrarian Efficiency
Authors GARCÍA ALONSO, CARLOS, Hervas-Martinez, Cesar , MILLÁN LARA, SALUD, TORRES JIMÉNEZ, MERCEDES
External publication No
Means Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.
Scope Proceedings Paper
Nature Científica
JCR Quartile 4
SJR Quartile 2
SJR Impact 0.36900
Web https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84952673352&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-319-24598-0_9&partnerID=40&md5=58176bfba7ceb691cac7abdb06b1f8be
Publication date 01/01/2015
ISI 000367709100009
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-84952673352
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24598-0_9
Abstract By using a high-variability sample of real agrarian enterprises previously classified into two classes (efficient and inefficient), a comparative study was carried out to demonstrate the classification accuracy of logistic regression algorithms based on evolutionary product-unit neural networks. Data envelopment analysis considering variable returns-to-scale (BBC-DEA) was chosen to classify selected farms (220 olive tree farms in dry farming) as efficient or inefficient by using surveyed socio-economic variables (agrarian year 2000). Once the sample was grouped by BCC-DEA, easy-to-collect descriptive variables (concerning the farm and farmer) were then used as independent variables in order to find a quick and reliable alternative for classifying agrarian enterprises as efficient or inefficient. Results showed that our proposal is very promising for the classification of complex structures (farms).
Keywords Neural networks; Classification; Product-Unit; Evolutionary algorithms; Agrarian technical efficiency
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