Least distance based inefficiency measures on the pareto-efficient frontier tn dea

Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-91

  Ando, Kazutoshi ^a   Kai, Atsuhiko ^a   Maeda, Yasunobu ^a   Sekitani, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a Department of Systems Engineering   (Japan)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency measure; The least distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880444600     PISSN: 04534514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15807/jorsj.55.73     Document Type: Article

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