DEA and the discriminant analysis of ratios for ranking units

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 470-478

  Sinuany Stern, Zilla ^a   Friedman, Lea ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Discriminant analysis; Multicriteria decision analysis; Ranking; Scaling

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS;

MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0032309090     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(97)00313-5     Document Type: Article

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