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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">REA Press</journal-id>
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      <journal-title>REA Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3042-2264</issn><issn pub-type="epub">3042-2264</issn><publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.22105/raise.v1i3.59</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Data envelopment analysis, Piecewise linear function, Trade offs, Target, Marginal value, Nonradial modes.</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>Non-Radial Piecewise Linear DEA Model</article-title><subtitle>Non-Radial Piecewise Linear DEA Model</subtitle></title-group>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Hosseinzadeh Lotfi</surname>
		<given-names>Farhad </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Nekoee </surname>
		<given-names>Ali </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>21</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>© 2024 REA Press</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p></license>
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      <related-article related-article-type="companion" vol="2" page="e235" id="RA1" ext-link-type="pmc">
			<article-title>Non-Radial Piecewise Linear DEA Model</article-title>
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			In standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models it is as- sumed that the aggregate output (input) is a pure linear function of each output (input). But in real life situations linear pricing may not sufficiently reveal the differences in value which are created from one  Decision Making Unit (DMU) to another. Thus for overcoming this difficulty a generalization of the? DEA methodology has been presented that incorporates piece- wise linear functions of factors. In this paper, considering the benefits of nonradial DEA models over that of radial ones, this subject has been expanded and new model have been presented. Also considering this situation the issue of efficiency assessment, finding targets and identifying reference set in presence of trade off technology has been discussed. Furthermore, the above-mentioned mode is compared to those obtained through radial ones and an example is provided for the sake of lucidity.
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