The super-efficiency procedure for outlier identification, not for ranking efficient units

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1311-1320

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Chang, Hsihui ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency ranking; Outlier identification; Simulation study; Super efficiency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); EFFICIENCY RANKING; OUTLIER IDENTIFICATION; SIMULATION STUDY; SUPER-EFFICIENCY;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 33748423740     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.06.028     Document Type: Article

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