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Performance Analysis in Production Systems with Uncertain Data: A Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

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  • Seyedeh Fatemeh Bagheri
  • Alireza Amirteimoori
  • Sohrab Kordrostami
  • Mansour Soufi

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The problem of determining an optimal benchmark to inefficient decision‐making units (DMUs) is an important issue in the field of performance analysis. Previous methods for determining the projection points of inefficient DMUs have only focused on one objective and other features have been ignored. This paper attempts to determine the best projection point for each DMU when the inputs and outputs data are in stochastic form and presents an alternative definition for the best projection by considering three main aspects: technical efficient, minimal cost, and maximal revenue as much as possible. Considering the important role of the electricity industry in the economic growth of each country, a practical example has been implemented on 16 regional electricity companies in Iran in 9 consecutive periods. The efficiency score along with the projection points of the three technical models (BCC model of Banker et al. (1984)), cost, and stochastic revenue are compared with the projection point obtained from the model presented in this article, which simultaneously meets these three objectives, showing the improvement of companies’ performance.

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  • Seyedeh Fatemeh Bagheri & Alireza Amirteimoori & Sohrab Kordrostami & Mansour Soufi, 2022. "Performance Analysis in Production Systems with Uncertain Data: A Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis Approach," Complexity, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 2022(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:complx:v:2022:y:2022:i:1:n:9198737
    DOI: 10.1155/2022/9198737
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