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Data Envelopment Analysis (Productivity)×DEA×
FieldEconomicsDecision-making
FamilyProcess / pipelineMCDM
Year of origin19781978
OriginatorCharnes, Cooper & Rhodes (building on Farrell 1957)Charnes, A., Cooper, W. W., Rhodes, E.
TypeNonparametric linear-programming efficiency frontierNon-parametric efficiency frontier (CCR model)
Seminal sourceCharnes, A., Cooper, W. W., & Rhodes, E. (1978). Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. European Journal of Operational Research, 2(6), 429–444. DOI ↗Charnes, A., Cooper, W. W., Rhodes, E. (1978). Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. European Journal of Operational Research DOI ↗
AliasesDEA Efficiency Analysis, Nonparametric Frontier Efficiency, CCR/BCC Efficiency Measurement, Production Frontier DEA
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SummaryData envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric, linear-programming technique for measuring the relative productive efficiency of comparable units — firms, plants, hospitals, schools, bank branches — that convert multiple inputs into multiple outputs. Introduced by Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes in 1978 and rooted in Farrell's 1957 work on efficiency measurement, it constructs a best-practice frontier that envelops the observed data and scores each unit by its distance to that frontier, requiring no assumed functional form for the production technology.DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis (CCR model) for efficiency-based ranking) is a dea multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method introduced by Charnes, A., Cooper, W. W., Rhodes, E. in 1978. It turns a decision matrix of alternatives scored on multiple criteria into a structured, reproducible result.
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