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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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A hybrid approach of DEA, rough set and support vector machines for business failure prediction

TL;DR: The results shows that DEA do provide valuable information in business failure predictions and the proposed R ST-SVM model provides better classification results than RST-BPN model, no matter when only considering financial ratios or the model including both financial ratios and DEA.
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The link between operational efficiency and environmental impacts: a joint application of Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis.

TL;DR: A case study on LCA of mussel cultivation in rafts shows that direct link between operational efficiency and environmental impacts can help to convince the managers and operators of the cultivation sites of the double dividend of reducing inputs consumption and achieve operational efficiency: lower costs and lower environmental impacts.
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Restricting virtual weights in data envelopment analysis

TL;DR: A new classification scheme for virtual weights restrictions is presented, which brings the concept of assurance regions intovirtual weights restrictions, and it is shown that the use of simple virtual restrictions and virtual assurance regions are preferable to theUse of the more generally advocated WB's proportionalVirtual weights restrictions.
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China’s regional energy and environmental efficiency: A Range-Adjusted Measure based analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors utilized the Range-Adjusted Measure (RAM) based nonparametric approach to evaluate the regional energy and environmental efficiency of China over the period of 2006-2010.
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Economies of scope in financial services: A DEA efficiency analysis of the US insurance industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the scope economies in the US insurance industry over the period 1993-2006 and test for scope economies by regressing efficiency scores on control variables and an indicator for strategic focus.
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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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