| Article ID: | iaor20097332 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 59 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 860 |
| End Page Number: | 862 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Bao CP, Chen TH, Chang SY |
The cross–efficiency method is generally utilized to rank decision–making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on peer–evaluation logic. This brief note provides a method of using the available information from the linear program outputs to calculate the ranking of all DMUs with fewer computations and offers an alternative interpretation to the cross–efficiency method based on slack analysis in DEA.