<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a decision making tool based on linear programming for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of comparable units. Besides the identification of relatively efficient and inefficient units, DEA identifies the sources and level of inefficiency for each of the inputs and outputs. This paper is a survey of the basic DEA models. A comparison of DEA models is given. The effect of model orientation (input or output) on the efficiency frontier and the effect of the convexity requirements on returns to scale are examined. The paper also explains how DEA models can be used to assess efficiency.</p></abstract>

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a decision making tool based on linear programming for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of comparable units. Besides the identification of relatively efficient and inefficient units, DEA identifies the sources and level of inefficiency for each of the inputs and outputs. This paper is a survey of the basic DEA models. A comparison of DEA models is given. The effect of model orientation (input or output) on the efficiency frontier and the effect of the convexity requirements on returns to scale are examined. The paper also explains how DEA models can be used to assess efficiency.

Data Envelopment Analysis - Basic Models and their Utilization

Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Jove Ilića 154, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidričeva cesta 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a decision making tool based on linear programming for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of comparable units....

Data Envelopment Analysis - Basic Models and their Utilization

Published Online: Apr 02, 2009

Page range: 37 - 43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10051-009-0001-6

Keywords
Efficiency, DEA models, Efficiency frontier

This content is open access.

Data Envelopment Analysis - Basic Models and their Utilization

Published Online: Apr 02, 2009

Page range: 37 - 43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10051-009-0001-6

KeywordsEfficiency, DEA models, Efficiency frontier

This content is open access.

Keywords
Efficiency, DEA models, Efficiency frontier