Article ID: | iaor19941638 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 713 |
End Page Number: | 715 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1993 |
Journal: | OMEGA |
Authors: | Doyle J., Green R. |
Keywords: | decision theory: multiple criteria |
Stewart has recently presented a survey of theory and practice in multiple criteria decision making (MCDM). While Stewart admits that this is ‘by no means a comprehensive review’, the absence of data envelopment analysis (DEA) from the approaches described is, the authors believe, an important omission. In this brief note they illustrate DEA as an aid to MCDM by reanalysing some data which Stewart used in the article to demonstrate multivariate statistical approaches. One distinction that Stewart draws is between