Sensitivity and stability analysis in dea

Abstract : Sensitivity analyses may be regarded as a mathematical programming counterpart of significance testing in statistics since each is concerned with examining allowable ranges of variation in the data. In statistical analysis, this may take the form of examining ranges of possible chi sq values obtained from the data relative to a fitted function from and hypothesized class of statistical distributions. In linear programming, it may take the form of ascertaining ranges within which data may be varied without requiring a change in the set of vectors that constitute an optimum basis. Additional keywords: Reprints.

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