A note on DEA vs principal component analysis: An improvement to Joe Zhu's approach

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 553-560

  Premachandra, I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EFFICIENCY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); JOE ZHU THEORY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0035427777     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00145-4     Document Type: Article

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