Variables reduction in data envelopment analysis

Optimization

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 735-745

  Amirteimoori, Alireza ^a   Despotis, Dimitris K ^b   Kordrostami, Sohrab ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; efficiency; inputs outputs; principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898462287     PISSN: 02331934     EISSN: 10294945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2012.684354     Document Type: Article

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