A complete efficiency ranking of decision making units in data envelopment analysis

被引:120
作者
Mehrabian, S [1 ]
Alirezaee, MR [1 ]
Jahanshahloo, GR [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Teacher Educ, Dept Math, Tehran, Iran
关键词
data envelopment analysis; efficiency; ranking;
D O I
10.1023/A:1008703501682
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
The efficiency measures provided by DEA can be used for ranking Decision Making Units (DMUs), however, this ranking procedure does not yield relative rankings for those units with 100% efficiency. Andersen and Petersen have proposed a modified efficiency measure for efficient units which can be used for ranking, but this ranking breaks down in some cases, and can be unstable when one of the DMUs has a relatively small value for some of its inputs. This paper proposes an alternative efficiency measure, based on a different optimization problem that removes the difficulties.
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页码:261 / 266
页数:6
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