Stability of the Classification of Returns to Scale FDH Models in the Presence of Undesirable Data

Subject Areas : Business Strategy

Leila Jalaei ¹ , Dariush Akbarian ²

1 - Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2 - Department of Mathematics, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

Received: 2014-02-13 Accepted : 2014-09-13 Published : 2016-07-01

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