A data envelopment analysis-based approach for data preprocessing

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1379-1388

  Pendharkar, Parag C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Data envelopment analysis; Data preprocessing

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); DATA PREPROCESSING; MANAGERIAL MONOTONOCITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DATA;

HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 27644551301     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2005.155     Document Type: Article

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