TRANSLATION-INVARIANCE IN DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

被引:258
作者
ALI, AI [1 ]
SEIFORD, LM [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MASSACHUSETTS,DEPT IND ENGN & OPERAT RES,AMHERST,MA 01003
关键词
affine displacement; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); efficiency; invariance; productivity; translation;
D O I
10.1016/0167-6377(90)90061-9
中图分类号
C93 [管理学]; O22 [运筹学];
学科分类号
070105 ; 12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
Conditions are established under which DEA models are translation invariant. Specifically, an affine displacement does not alter the efficient frontier for models incorporating the convexity constraint. This affords a ready solution to the problems of scaling and the presence of zero values which arise in Data Envelopment Analysis. © 1990.
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页码:403 / 405
页数:3
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