Data envelopment analysis with nonhomogeneous DMUs

Operations Research

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 666-676

  Cook, Wade D ^a   Harrison, Julie ^b   Imanirad, Raha ^a   Rouse, Paul ^b   Zhu, Joe ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assurance regions; Missing outputs; Nonhomogeneous DMUs; Subgroups

Indexed keywords

ASSURANCE REGION; DECISION-MAKING UNITS; MANUFACTURING PLANT; MISSING DATA PROBLEM; MISSING OUTPUTS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; SUBGROUPS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84880063623     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2013.1173     Document Type: Article

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