Tricks with the BoD model and an application to the e-Government Development Index

In this paper we examine the implications of ideal and anti-ideal decision-making units on Benefit-of-the-Doubt (BoD) model. particular, verify that, in presence an (anti-ideal) unit, efficiency scores BoD (inverted BoD) model can be obtained without solving relevant linear programming problems. case, it suffices to choose largest (smallest) element-wise divided component indicators evaluated unit by those unit. We then illustrate one practical use simple enumeration algorithm providing empirical results for a BoD-based e-Government Development Index within traffic-light reporting system.