Distance optimization approach to ratio-form efficiency measures in data envelopment analysis

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 175-186

  Fukuyama, Hirofumi ^a   Masaki, Hiroya ^b   Sekitani, Kazuyuki ^c   Shi, Jianming ^d  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASMO Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Least distance; Non minimum distance; p Norm; Ratio form efficiency measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957437183     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-013-0366-7     Document Type: Article

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