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- Title
Sensitivity and Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis.
- Authors
Seiford, Lawrence M.; Zhu, Joe
- Abstract
Sensitivity of the returns to scale (RTS) classifications in data envelopment analysis is studied by means of linear programming problems. The stability region for an observation preserving its current RTS classification (constant, increasing or decreasing returns to scale) can be easily investigated by the optimal values to a set of particular DEA-type formulations. Necessary and sufficient conditions are determined for preserving the RTS classifications when input or output data perturbations are non-proportional. It is shown that the sensitivity analysis method under proportional data perturbations can also be used to estimate the RTS classifications and discover the identical RTS regions yielded by the input-based and the output-based DEA methods. Thus, our approach provides information on both the RTS classifications and the stability of the classifications. This sensitivity analysis method can easily be applied via existing DEA codes.
- Subjects
MULTIVARIATE analysis; ECONOMIC forecasting; LINEAR substitutions; DATA envelopment analysis; PERTURBATION theory; MATHEMATICS
- Publication
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1999, Vol 12, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0895-562X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1007803207538