Data Envelopment Analysis A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software /

• Main Authors: Cooper, William W. (Author), Seiford, Lawrence M. (Author), Tone, Kaoru. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Economic theory.; Econometrics.; Microeconomics.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.
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In a relatively short period of time Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide variety of activities in many contexts worldwide....

Table of Contents:

• General Discussion
• The Basic CCR Model
• The CCR Model and Production Correspondence
• Alternative DEA Models
• Returns to Scale
• Models with Restricted Multipliers
• Discretionary, Non-discretionary and Categorical Variables
• Allocation Models
• Data Variations.