Open AccessNote—A Note on “The Use of Categorical Variables in Data Envelopment Analysis”
Author(s) -
Wagner A. Kamakura
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
management science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.954
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1526-5501
pISSN - 0025-1909
DOI - 10.1287/mnsc.34.10.1273
Subject(s) - data envelopment analysis , categorical variable , ordinal data , econometrics , statistics , unit (ring theory) , mathematics , operations research , computer science , mathematics education
A variant of Banker and Morey's (Banker, R. D., R. C. Morey. 1986. The use of categorical variables in data envelopment analysis. Management Sci. 32(12, December) 1613--1627.) DEA model for controllable ordinal outputs. As opposed to the original model, this version allows the comparison of a Decision Making Unit (DMU) to other DMU's operating at equal or higher levels of the ordinal outputs.data envelopment, analysis, efficiency analysis