Farrell revisited - Visualizing properties of DEA production frontiers

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1535-1545

  Forsund F R ^a   Kittelsen, S A C ^b   Krivonozhko, V E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Frisch Centre   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

DEA; Farrell efficiency measure; Grouping method; Production frontier; Variable returns to scale; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

FARRELL EFFICIENCY MEASURES; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION; GROUPING METHOD; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACE; NUMERICAL REPRESENTATION; PRODUCTION FRONTIER; RETURNS TO SCALE;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70349503582     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2008.185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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