Combining ranking scales and selecting variables in the DEA context: The case of industrial branches

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 781-791

  Friedman, Lea ^a   Sinuany Stern, Zilla ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Multi criteria decision analysis; Ranking; Selecting variables

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA);

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0032165584     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(97)00102-0     Document Type: Article

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