Preparing your data for DEA

Modeling Data Irregularities and Structural Complexities in Data Envelopment Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 305-320

  Sarkis, Joe ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Discretionary; Homogeneity; Negative

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349933608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71607-7_17     Document Type: Chapter

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