Estimating returns to scale in DEA

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-37

  Golany, Boaz ^a,b   Yu, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Returns to scale (RTS)

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING UNITS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0031273254     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00259-7     Document Type: Article

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