Data Envelopment Analysis Email & Phone Number

Professor and Chair in Business Analytics, Aston Business School

Http://Dataenvelopment.Com

DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is the optimization method of mathematical programming to generalize the Farrell(1957) single-input/ single-output technical efficiency measure to the multiple-input/ multiple-output case by constructing a relative efficiency score as the ratio of a single virtual output to a single virtual input. Thus DEA become a new tool in operational research for measuring technical efficiency. It originally was developed by Charnes, Cooper, Rhodes(1978) with CRS and was extended by Banker, Charnes, Cooper(1984) to include variable returns to scale. So the basic DEA models are known as CCR and BCC. Since 1978 over 1000 articles, books and dissertation have been published and DEA has rapidly extended to returns to scale, dummy or categorical variables, discretionary and non-discretionary variables, incorporating value judgments, longitudinal analysis, weight restrictions, stochastic DEA, non-parametric Malmquist indices, technical change in DEA and many other topics. Up to now the DEA measure has been used to evaluate and compare educational departments (schools, colleges and universities), health care (hospitals, clinics) prisons, agricultural production, banking, armed forces, sports, market research, transportation (highway maintenance), courts, benchmarking, index number construction and many other applications.At the moment researchers follow wide ranges of DEA and related topics.Here are some topics in DEA:Returns to scaleDummy or categorical variablesDiscretionary and non-discretionary variablesIncorporating judgmentLongitudinal analysisWeight restrictionStochastic DEAFuzzy and imprecise DEANon-parametric Malmquist indicesTechnical change in DEADynamics of Data Envelopment AnalysisSensitivityand many more ….