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Introduction to DEA

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Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a “data-oriented” approach to evaluate the performance of a set of peer entities, has been widely used since it was first invented by Charnes. This is followed by a series of theoretical extensions. See Banker et al. [1], Charnes et al. [3], Petersen [12], Tone [14], and Cooper [6].

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Wen, M. (2015). Introduction to DEA. In: Uncertain Data Envelopment Analysis. Uncertainty and Operations Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43802-2_2

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