Classifying and Predicting Efficiencies Using Interval DEA Grid Setting

The classification and the prediction of efficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is an important issue, especially in large scale problems or when new units frequently enter the under-assessment set. In this paper, we contribute to the subject by proposing a grid structure based on interval segmentations of the range of values for the inputs and outputs. Such intervals combined, define hyper-rectangles that partition the space of the problem. This structure, exploited by Interval DEA models and a dominance relation, acts as a DEA pre-processor, enabling the classification and prediction of efficiency scores, without applying any DEA models.

Authors:

• Yiannis G. Smirlis

Keywords:

• Data envelopment analysis
• interval DEA
• efficiency classification
• efficiency prediction.

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