Modeling undesirable factors in efficiency evaluation: Comment

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 242-245

  Färe, Rolf ^a   Grosskopf, Shawna ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data translation; DEA; Directional distance function; Undesirable outputs

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DISPOSABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

DATA TRANSLATION; DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; UNDESIRABLE OUTPUTS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 1842426383     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00191-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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