Article ID: | iaor199285 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 733 |
End Page Number: | 738 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1991 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Ali Agha Iqbal, Cook Wade D., Seiford Lawrence M. |
Keywords: | programming: fractional, statistics: data envelopment analysis |
In a recent paper, Golany proposes an interesting extension of Data Envelopment Analysis to the situation where ordinal relations among weights corresponding to certain dimensions exist. However, the development of the extended model contains mathematical errors and the proposed equivalence is incorrect. The authors establish the correct model equivalence and prove that weak ordinal relations require a nonstandard DEA model. They also show that the case of