Sampling size and efficiency bias in Data Envelopment Analysis

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-64

  Alirezaee, Mohammad R ^a,b   Howland, Murray ^a   Van De Panne, Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Teacher Training University   (Iran)

Author keywords

Branch Banking; Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084604     PISSN: 11739126     EISSN: 15327612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1173912698000030     Document Type: Article

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