Data-driven benchmarking of building energy efficiency utilizing statistical frontier models

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-88

  Kavousian, Amir ^a   Rajagopal, Ram ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Data driven benchmarking; Energy efficiency; Energy efficient frontier; Stochastic ranking

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS; BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY FRONTIERS; EFFICIENT BUILDINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; STOCHASTIC RANKING;

BENCHMARKING; BUILDINGS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESEARCH; SMART METERS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84891417208     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000327     Document Type: Article

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