Synopses & Reviews
Review
From the reviews: "This handbook provides a valuable overview of DEA models on the one hand and many DEA applications supplemented by software information on the other hand. ... can be recommended to researchers, students and practitioners with basic knowledge of DEA who are interested in current DEA methodology and applications." (Andreas Kleine, OR-News Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR) e.V., Iss. 24, Juli, 2005)
Table of Contents
-Preface; W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. -1. Data Envelopment Analysis: History, Models and Interpretations; W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. -2. Returns to Scale in DEA: R.D. Banker, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. -3. Sensitivity Analysis in DEA: W.W. Cooper, Shanling Li, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. -4. Incorporating Value Judgments in DEA: E. Thanassoulis, M.C. Portela, R. Allen. -5. Distance Functions with Applications to DEA; R. Färe, S. Grosskopf, G. Whittaker. -6. Qualitative Data in DEA; W.D. Cook. -7. Congestion: Its Identification and Management with DEA; W.W. Cooper, Honghui Deng, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. -8. Malmquist Productivity Index: Efficiency Change Over Time; K. Tone. -9. Chance Constrained DEA: W.W. Cooper, Zhimin Huang, S.X. Li. -10. Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the Principle: L. Simar, P.W.Wilson. -11. Statistical Tests Based on DEA Efficiency Scores; R.D. Banker, R. Natarajan. -12. Performance Evaluation in Education: Modeling Educational Production; J. Ruggiero. -13. Assessing Bank and Bank Branch Performance: Modeling Considerations and Approaches; J.C. Paradi, S. Vela, Zijiang Yang. -14. Engineering Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis: Issues and Opportunities: K.P. Triantis. -15. Benchmarking in Sports: Bonds or Ruth: Determining the Most Dominant Baseball Batter Using DEA; T.R. Anderson. -16. Assessing the Selling Function in Retailing: Insights from Banking, Sales forces, Restaurants & Betting shops; A.D. Athanassopoulos. -17. Health Care Applications: From Hospitals to Physicians, From Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers: J.A. Chilingerian, H.D. Sherman. -18. DEA Software Tools and Technology: A State-of-the-Art Survey; R. Barr. -Notes about Authors. Author Index. Subject Index.