dea application

The value of data envelopment analysis (DEA) lies in its capability to relatively evaluate the individual efficiency or performance of a decision making unit (DMU) within a target group of interest that operates in a certain application domain such as the banking industry,healthcare industry,agriculture industry, transportation industry,etc.

All these industries practically adopt DEA for a variety of reasons ,as Golanyand Roll pointed out that it can be applied to:identify sources of inefficiency, rank the DMUs,evaluate management , evaluate the effectiveness of programs or policies,create a quantitative basis for reallocating resources,etc.[link]