Testing the statistical significance of linear programming estimators

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 128-135

  Horsky, Dan ^a   Nelson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute weights; DEA; Linear programming; LINMAP

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTS; DEA; LINMAP; NONPARAMETRIC JACKKNIFE;

DATA REDUCTION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33644559040     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0444     Document Type: Article

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