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Modeling Data Irregularities and Structural Complexities in Data Envelopment Analysis by Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu (auth.), Joe Zhu, Wade D. Cook (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In a relatively short period of time, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a whole variety of problems in many different contexts worldwide. The analysis of an array of these problems has been resistant to other methodological approaches because of the multiple levels of complexity that must be considered. Several examples of multifaceted problems in which DEA analysis has been successfully used are: (1) maintenance activities of US Air Force bases in geographically dispersed locations, (2) policy force efficiencies in the United Kingdom, (3) branch bank performances in Canada, Cyprus, and other countries and (4) the efficiency of universities in performing their education and research functions in the U.S., England, and France. In addition to localized problems, DEA applications have been extended to performance evaluations of 'larger entities' such as cities, regions, and countries. These extensions have a wider scope than traditional analyses because they include ''social'' and ''quality-of-life'' dimensions which require the modeling of qualitative an

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Author
Wade D. Cook, Joe Zhu (auth.), Joe Zhu, Wade D. Cook (eds.)
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9781441944009
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Mathematics, Science, Technology

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