A Comparison of Data Envelopment Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks as Tools for Assessing the Efficiency of Decision Making Units

DOI10.1057/JORS.1996.127MaRDI QIDQ4717151zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen P. Curram, Antreas D. Athanassopoulos

Publication date 29 January 1997

Published in The Journal of the Operational Research Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1996.127

zbMATH Keywords

artificial neural networksperformance measurementdata envelopment analysissimulated production technologytechnical and scale efficiency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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