On the use of super-efficiency procedures for ranking efficient units and identifying outliers

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 21-35

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Chang, Hsihui ^b   Zheng, Zhiqiang ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency ranking; Outlier identification; Simulation study; Super efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940063011     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-015-1980-8     Document Type: Article

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