Some rankings for the Athens Olympic Games using DEA models with a constant input

There is no official method to establish a final ranking for the Olympic games. The usual ranking is based on the Lexicographic Multicriteria Method, the main drawback of which is to overvalue gold medals. Furthermore it does not take in account that the various sports may be of different importance...

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Main Author: Soares de Mello,João Carlos Correia Baptista (author)
Other Authors: Meza,Lidia Angulo (author), Silva,Brenda Branco da (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0874-51612008000100006
Country:Portugal
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