Suitability and redundancy of non-homogeneous weight restrictions for measuring the relative efficiency in DEA

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 380-395

  Podinovski, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Weight restrictions

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DECISION MAKING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRODUCTIVITY; THEOREM PROVING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0344308284     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00176-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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