Assessing the performance of German Bundesliga football players: A non-parametric metafrontier approach

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 571-587

  Tiedemann, Torben ^a   Francksen, Tammo ^a   Latacz Lohmann, Uwe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Football; Metafrontier analysis; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255132942     PISSN: 1435246X     EISSN: 16139178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-010-0146-7     Document Type: Article

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