Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Uses With DEA-Solver Software and References /

• Main Authors: Cooper, William W. (Author), Seiford, Lawrence M. (Author), Tone, Kaoru (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Econometrics.; Microeconomics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Business and Management, general.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Industrial and Production Engineering.

Recent years have seen a great variety of applications of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) for use in evaluating the performances of many different kinds of entities engaged in many different activities in many different contexts in many different countries. One reason is that DEA has opened up possi...

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
• Super-Efficiency Models.