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This paper considers efficiency of a Decision Making Unit (DMU) in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a generalized additive model and a categorical structure. Specifically, it extends the categorical framework in DEA for controllable and noncontrollable situations, and it gives simple, but powerful, tests to determine whether or not a given DMU is efficient.
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Neralić, L., Wendell, R.E. A generalized additive, categorical model in data envelopment analysis. Top 8, 235–263 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02628557
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