Joint use of DEA and constrained canonical correlation analysis for efficiency valuations involving categorical variables

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1775-1785

  Park, K S ^c   Lee, K W ^b   Park, M S ^a   Kim, D ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Republic of Korea Army Headquarters   (South Korea)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Categorical variables; Constrained canonical correlation analysis; DEA; Efficiency valuations

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; CONSTRAINED CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY VALUATIONS; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; PARAMETRIC APPROACH;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70350291566     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2008.136     Document Type: Article

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