| Article ID: | iaor20084763 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 347 |
| End Page Number: | 357 |
| Publication Date: | May 2003 |
| Journal: | Pesquisa Operacional |
| Authors: | Sant'Anna A.P., Lins M.P.E., Alcntara A.A.M. |
In this paper we present a procedure based on the use of Minimum Sum of Absolute Errors (MSAE) regression for the treatment of factor weights in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It develops and presents alternative method to limit the range within which these factor weights are allowed to vary when models using a single output are analyzed.