A new slack DEA model to estimate the impact of slacks on the efficiencies

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 241-256

  Agarwal, Shivi ^a   Yadav, Shiv Prasad ^b   Singh, S P ^b  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Efficiency; Slacks; Transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053897731     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2011.042915     Document Type: Article

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