
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful, quantitative analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. This volume offers a systematic introduction to DEA and its uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problems in a variety of contexts. Each chapter accompanies its developments with simple numerical examples and discussions of actual applications. Emphasis is placed on the use as well as an understanding of DEA and the topics in this book have been selected...