At a crossroad of data envelopment and principal component analyses

Omega

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 351-364

  Shanmugam, Ramalingam ^a   Johnson, Charles ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Efficiency rating; Melanoma cancer; Profiling; Ratio of Gaussian random variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748900430     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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