Estimating returns to scale in data envelopment analysis: A new procedure

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-98

  Jahanshahloo, Gholam Reza ^a   Soleimani Damaneh, Majid ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Decision making unit; Efficiency; Linear programming; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); DECISION MAKING UNITS; RETURN TO SCALES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0942277587     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(03)00199-1     Document Type: Article

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