A unified model for detecting efficient and inefficient outliers in data envelopment analysis

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 417-425

  Chen, Wen Chih ^a   Johnson, Andrew L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Outlier; Post analysis

Indexed keywords

INFLUENTIAL OBSERVATIONS; OUTLIER; POOR PERFORMANCE; POST ANALYSIS; UNIFIED MODEL;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 69549135134     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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