Using mathematical programming to assess the relative performance of the health care industry

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Business, Decision Sciences, Performance Management +10

Evaluating Program and Managerial Efficiency: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Program Follow Through

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Evaluation: A Systematic Approach.

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Public Affairs, Educational Assessment, Formative Assessment +11

A survey of frontier production functions and of their relationship to efficiency measurement

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Preface to topics in data envelopment analysis

A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper · Annals of Operations Research · 1984 · 518 citations

Business, Business Economics, Operations Management +11