Data envelopment analysis: Prior to choosing a model

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 44, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-4

  Cook, Wade D ^a   Tone, Kaoru ^b   Zhu, Joe ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Input; Output; Ratio

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DECISION MAKING;

BEST PRACTICES; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSE; DECISION MAKING UNIT; INPUT; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA EVALUATION; OUTPUT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND BENCHMARKING; PRODUCTION FRONTIER; RATIO;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887590279     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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