Closest targets and strong monotonicity on the strongly efficient frontier in DEA

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 44, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-57

  Aparicio, Juan ^a   Pastor, Jesus T ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Closest targets; Data envelopment analysis; H lder norms; Strong monotonicity

Indexed keywords

CLOSEST TARGETS; CONDITION; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; DISTANCE MEASURE; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; HÖLDE NORM; MONOTONICITY; NON-ORIENTED; STRONG MONOTONICITY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887773854     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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