Editing Data envelopment analysis (section)

{{Short description|Method in operations research and economics}}
'''Data envelopment analysis''' ('''DEA''') is a [[non-parametric statistics|nonparametric]] method in [[operations research]] and [[economics]] for the estimation of [[production-possibility frontier|production frontiers]].<ref name=":0">Charnes et al (1978)</ref> DEA has been applied in a large range of fields including international banking, economic sustainability, police department operations, and logistical applications<ref name="Charnes95">Charnes et al (1995)</ref><ref name=":15">Emrouznejad et al (2016)</ref><ref name=":16">Thanassoulis (1995)</ref> Additionally, DEA has been used to assess the performance of natural language processing models, and it has found other applications within machine learning.<ref>Koronakos and Sotiropoulos (2020)</ref><ref name=":18">Zhou et al (2022)</ref><ref name=":17">Guerrero et al (2022)</ref>