On piecewise loglinear frontiers and log efficiency measures

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 389-395

  Seiford, Lawrence M ^a   Zhu, Joe ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); LOG EFFICIENCY MEASURES; PIECEWISE LOGLINEAR FRONTIERS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0032064129     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(97)00078-6     Document Type: Article

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