Abstract
Data envelopment,analysis (DEA) developed by Chames, Cooper, and Rhodes (1978) is a methodology for measuring relative efficiencies within a group of decision making units (DMUs) which utilizes several inputs to produce a set of outputs.
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Kao, C. (1993). Efficiency Improvement in Data Envelopment Analysis. In: Karmann, A., Mosler, K., Schader, M., Uebe, G. (eds) Operations Research ’92. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12629-5_144
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