A study of DEA models without explicit inputs

Omega

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 472-480

  Liu, W B ^a   Zhang, D Q ^b,c   Meng, W ^d   Li, X X ^b   Xu, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Data without explicit input; DEA; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

DATA WITHOUT EXPLICIT INPUT; DEA; DEA MODELS; DECISION MAKERS; OUTPUT DATA; PERFORMANCES EVALUATION; VALUE JUDGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79551690082     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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