This article describes two methods of creating Olympic rankings based on number of medals won. One method is based on the weighted mean value, which we will show is equivalent to the compromise programming known in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDM). The other method uses volume-based...

A number of studies have used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the performance of the countries in Olympic Games. While the fact that numbers of three kinds of medal must only take integer values is ignored. This study discusses, by means of integer-valued DEA model, the performance...