Data Envelopment Analysis : A Comprehensive Text With Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software

This volume systematically details both the basic principles and new developments in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), offering a solid understanding of the methodology, its uses, and its potential. New material in this edition includes coverage of recent developments that have greatly extended the power and scope of DEA and have lead to new directions for research and DEA uses. Each chapter accompanies its developments with simple numerical examples and discussions of actual applications. The first nine chapters cover the basic principles of DEA, while the final seven chapters provide a more advanced treatment.

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Cooper if Foster Parker Professor of Finance and Management in the Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin and the Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow in the IC2 Institute.