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Measuring the efficiency of decision making units

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A nonlinear (nonconvex) programming model provides a new definition of efficiency for use in evaluating activities of not-for-profit entities participating in public programs and methods for objectively determining weights by reference to the observational data for the multiple outputs and multiple inputs that characterize such programs.
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This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 1978-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 25433 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Programming paradigm & Data envelopment analysis.

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Estimation of returns to scale using data envelopment analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, a partition of the optimal frontier into three parts corresponding to increasing, constant, and decreasing returns to scale is proposed, characterized in terms of optimal primal solutions and optimal dual solutions for both the original Charnes, Cooper, Rhodes model (1978) and the later Banker-Charnes-Cooper model (1984) and relying on concepts developed by R.D. Banker and R.M. Thrall.
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Weights restrictions and value judgements in Data Envelopment Analysis: Evolution, development and future directions

TL;DR: The paper argues that the incorporation of value judgements in DEA was motivated by applications of the method in real life organisations, and concentrates on the implications of weights restrictions on the efficiency, targets and peer comparators of inefficient Decision Making Units.
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On FDH efficiency analysis: Some methodological issues and applications to retail banking, courts, and urban transit

TL;DR: In this article, the methodology of free disposal hull (FDH) measure of productive efficiency is defined and put in perspectivevis-a-vis other nonparametric techniques, in terms of the postulates on which they respectively rest.
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Accounting for Environmental Effects and Statistical Noise in Data Envelopment Analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new technique for incorporating environmental effects and statistical noise into a producer performance evaluation based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). The technique involves a three-stage analysis, in which DEA is applied to outputs and inputs only, to obtain initial measures of producer performance.
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Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Techniques for Economics and Operations Research

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of DEA models for productivity, efficiency, and data envelopment analysis, including non-radial models and Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency.
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The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

M. J. Farrell
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Theory of cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this article, a unified treatment of cost and production functions underlie the economic theory of production is presented, and the duality between cost function and production function is developed by introducing a cost correspondence, showing that these two functions are given in terms of each other by dual minimum problems.
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General competitive analysis

TL;DR: General competitive analysis, General competitive analysis as mentioned in this paper, General Competitive Analysis (GCA), general competitive analysis (GCA), GCA, GCA(GCA), GCA
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Cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a mathematical interpretation of the duality between cost and production function, and present a heuristic principle of minimum costs and a Cobb-Douglas production function.
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