Data Envelopment Analysis of clinics with sparse data: Fuzzy clustering approach

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-21

  Ben Arieh, David ^a   Gullipalli, Deep Kumar ^a  

^a Kansas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data Envelopment Analysis; Fuzzy c means; Healthcare; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER SIZES; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING APPROACH; DATA SETS; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; INITIAL VALUES; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; MISSING DATA; MISSING VALUES; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; OPTIMAL COMPLETION; PRODUCTION UNITS; SPARSE DATA; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861066894     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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