Profit Malmquist Index and Its Global Form in the Presence of the Negative Data in DEA

This paper first introduces the allocative and profit efficiency in the presence of the negative data and then presents a new circular index to measure the productivity change of decision making units (DMUs) for the case that the dataset contains the inputs and/or outputs with the negative values in...

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Main Authors: Ghasem Tohidi, Shabnam Razavyan, Simin Tohidnia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/276092