Nonlinear measures of technical efficiency

DOI10.1016/0305-0548(89)90052-XMaRDI QIDQ1112704zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. K. Sengupta

Publication date 1989

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-0548(89)90052-X

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisefficiency of decision-makingnonlinearities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06)

Review text

The data envelopment analysis for measuring efficiency of decision-making units is generalized here to include nonlinearities, which in suitable cases outperform the linear efficiency measures in terms of explanatory power and goodness of fit.

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