An enhanced procedure for estimating returns-to-scale in DEA

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1226-1238

  Jahanshahloo, G R ^a   Soleimani Damaneh, M ^a   Rostamy Malkhalifeh, M ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DEA; RETURNS-TO-SCALE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 31144471722     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2005.01.136     Document Type: Article

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