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Dominant Competitive Factors for evaluating program efficiency in grouped data

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Dominant Competitive Factors, unique solutions to a new class of two-person ratio efficiency games, are introduced as a means for distinguishing exceptional aspects of individual performance. The vectors of input-output multipliers thus obtained may be analyzed collectively so that commonalities within groups and differences across groups may be discovered. The method is applied to "Program Follow-Through", the original impetus for developing Data Envelopment Analysis. Our results are compared with those of the earlier study, whereupon substantial new insights are obtained.

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Rousseau, J.J., Semple, J.H. Dominant Competitive Factors for evaluating program efficiency in grouped data. Annals of Operations Research 73, 253–276 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018933329202

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