Choices and uses of DEA weights

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 164, Issue , 2011, Pages 93-126

  Cooper, William W ^a   Ruiz, José L ^b   Sirvent, Inmaculada ^a  

^a Universidad Miguel Hernández ^*

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958970949     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6151-8_4     Document Type: Chapter

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