Assessing Professional Tennis Players Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 276-302

  Ruiz, José L ^a   Pastor, Diego ^a   Pastor, Jesús T ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

assessment of players; cross efficiency evaluation; data envelopment analysis; tennis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877110046     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: 15527794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002511421952     Document Type: Review

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