On return to scale of fully efficient DMUs in data envelopment analysis under interval data

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-40

  Jahanshahloo, G R ^a   Matin, R Kazemi ^b   Vencheh, A Hadi ^c  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Interval data; MPSS; RTS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SET THEORY;

DECISION MAKING UNITS (DMU); IMPRECISE DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (IDEA); RETURN TO SCALE (RTS);

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 2942620502     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(03)00687-8     Document Type: Article

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