Model misspecification in Data Envelopment Analysis

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 73, Issue , 1997, Pages 233-252

  Smith, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Model specification; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031499060     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018981212364     Document Type: Article

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