A new method for detecting outliers in Data Envelopment Analysis

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 313-316

  Tran, Nam Anh ^a   Shively, Gerald ^b   Preckel, Paul ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; OUTLIER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 76749140321     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850701765119     Document Type: Article

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