The necessary and sufficient conditions for returns to scale properties in generalized data envelopment analysis model

Science in China, Series E: Technological Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 503-517

  Wei, Quanling ^a   Yu, Gang ^b   Lu, Jianshou ^c  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficient frontier; Multiple input output decision making; Production possibility set; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041411068     PISSN: 10069321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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