This paper presents a deterministic approach for performance assessment of different province’s road safety level at Iran. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) model considering undesirable input and output indices and a multivariate statistical method, principle component analysis (PCA) are used in this paper, while previous studies do not use composite PCA-DEA method and undesirable input and ou...

The efficiency of distribution systems is largely affected by the performances of distribution centres. The main objective of this paper is to develop and propose a DEA model for distribution centres efficiency measuring that can help managers in decision making and improving the efficiency. Due to numerous indicators that describe DCs operating, the main problem is indicators selection. In ord...

This study proposes a three-staged approach to data envelopment analysis (DEA) modeling for hospital efficiency. The aims overcome the constraint on number of inputs/outputs relative DMUs. Initially, principal components all inputs and outputs are determined using component (PCA). Next, these enter factor (FA) process construct two-level hierarchy establish weighting scheme based explained vari...

DEA model selection is problematic. The estimated efficiency for any DMU depends on the inputs and outputs included in the model. It also depends on the number of outputs plus inputs. It is clearly important to select parsimonious specifications and to avoid as far as possible models that assign full high efficiency ratings to DMUs that operate in unusual ways (mavericks). A new method for mode...

this paper presents a combination of data envelopment analysis (dea) and principal component analysis (pca) to reduce the dimensionality of data set. dea is known as effective tool for assessment and benchmarking. the weak point of dea, it is that the number of efficient dmus relies on the number of variables (inputs and outputs). for solving this, first, we do principal component analysis (pca...

This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCADEA for radial efficiency measurement to US natural gas transmi...