A New Method for Allocating Fixed Costs with Undesirable Data: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Subject Areas : Financial Mathematics

Mohhamad Reza Mozafari ¹ , Marzieh Ghasemi ² , Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi ³ , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh ⁴ , Mohammad Hasan Behzadi ⁵

1 - Department of Mathematics, Shiraz University Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
2 - Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University,Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
5 - Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-10-14 Accepted : 2022-02-06 Published : 2023-01-01

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