A well-defined efficiency measure for dealing with closest targets in DEA

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 219, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 9142-9154

  Aparicio, Juan ^a   Pastor, Jesus T ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Closest targets; Data Envelopment Analysis; Strong monotonicity

Indexed keywords

CLOSEST TARGETS; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; MONOTONICITY; POINT OF VIEWS; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84876513401     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2013.03.042     Document Type: Article

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