Refer again to the data presented in Problem 2.
a. Formulate a linear programming model that can be used to perform data envelopment analysis for hospital E.
b. Solve the model.
c. Is hospital E relatively inefficient? What is the interpretation of the value of the objective function?
d. Which hospitals are involved in making up the composite hospital? Can you make a general statement about which hospitals will make up the composite unit associated with a unit that is not inefficient?
Text Book: An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision. By David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Thomas Williams, Jeffrey Camm, James Cochran.