| Article ID: | iaor1988412 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Start Page Number: | 55 |
| End Page Number: | 65 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Sengupta Jati K. |
| Keywords: | statistics: data envelopment analysis |
The data envelopment analysis for measuring efficiency of decision-making units is generalized here to include nonlinearities, which in suitable cases outperform the linear efficiency measures in terms of explanatory power and goodness of fit.