A data envelopment analysis method for optimizing multi-response problem with censored data in the Taguchi method

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 817-835

  Liao, Hung Chang ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Censored data; Data envelopment analysis; Multi response; Neural network; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CENSORED DATA; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); MULTI-RESPONSE; TAGUCHI METHOD;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 3242669799     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2004.05.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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