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Title: DISTANCE FUNCTIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO DEA

Author
item FARE, ROLF - OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
item GROSSKOPF, SHAWNA - OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
item Whittaker, Gerald

Submitted to: Book Chapter
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/31/2003
Publication Date: 1/31/2004
Citation: Fare, R., Grosskopf, S., Whittaker, G.W. 2004. Distance functions with applications to DEA. In:Cooper,W.W.,Seiford,L.M., Zhu, J.,editors. Handbook On Data Envelopment Analysis. Hingham,MA:Kluwer Academic Publishers. p.139-152.

Interpretive Summary: Duality between distance functions and support functions is shown to be the basis for performance measures and their decompositions. DEA may be used to evaluate the measures.

Technical Abstract: Duality between distance functions and support functions is shown to be the basis for performance measures and their decompositions. DEA may be used to evaluate the measures.