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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 survey of productivity and efficiency measurement in rail transport

TL;DR: The authors surveys alternative methodologies for measuring and comparing the productivity and efficiency of railways, and the empirical findings of applied studies, concluding that increased competition via regulatory liberalisation and deregulation has improved efficiency.
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Commercial branch performance evaluation and results communication in a Canadian bank––a DEA application

TL;DR: Evaluating the performance of the commercial branches of a large Canadian bank using data envelopment analysis introduces non-discretionary factors to reflect specific aspects of the environment a branch is operating in, such as risk and economic growth rate of the region.
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Determinants of Commercial Bank Performance in Transition; An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate indicators of commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of transition countries.
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A multiple criteria decision model with ordinal preference data

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for aggregating ordinal preference ranking across multiple criteria is developed, which utilizes three levels of ordinal priorities: preferences among alternatives on the basis of each criterion; preferences among the criteria to reflect the importance of those criteria; and preferences among criteria which express the degree to which the respondent can clearly distinguish among the alternatives.
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A Mathematical Programming Approach for Measuring Technical Efficiency in a Fuzzy Environment

TL;DR: In this article, a three-stage approach is proposed to measure technical efficiency in a fuzzy environment using the traditional data envelopment analysis framework and then merges concepts developed in fuzzy parametric programming (Carlsson and Korhonen, 1986).
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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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