Improving the evaluation of cross efficiencies: A method based on Shannon entropy weight

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 112, Issue , 2017, Pages 99-106

  Song, Malin ^a   Zhu, Qingyuan ^b   Peng, Jun ^a   Santibanez Gonzalez, Ernesto D R ^c  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cross efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency evaluation; Shannon entropy

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AVERAGE EFFICIENCIES; CROSS EFFICIENCY; CROSS-EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING UNIT; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL METHODS; PRODUCTION FRONTIER; SHANNON ENTROPY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85027884155     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2017.07.023     Document Type: Article

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