Estimation of true efficient frontier of organisational performance using data envelopment analysis and support vector machine learning

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-172

  Poitier, Kerry ^a   Cho, Sohyung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; DEA; performance analysis; support vector machine; SVM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866040262     PISSN: 17567017     EISSN: 17567025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIDS.2011.040421     Document Type: Article

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