Quadratic data envelopment analysis

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1204-1214

  Kuosmanen, T ^a   Post, T ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency measurement; Piece wise quadratic approximation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

PIECE-WISE QUADRATIC APPROXIMATION; QUADRATIC DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0036850604     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601432     Document Type: Article

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