frontier: Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Functions. Two specifications are available: the error components specification with time-varying efficiencies (Battese and Coelli, 1992) and a model specification in which the firm effects are directly influenced by a number of variables (Battese and Coelli, 1995).

Version: 0.997-14
Depends: R (≥ 2.0.0), plm (≥ 1.0-1), micEcon (≥ 0.6-1), miscTools (≥ 0.6-1), Formula (≥ 0.2-0), lmtest (≥ 0.9-24)
Imports: moments (≥ 0.11), stats (≥ 2.15.0)
Suggests: MCMCpack (≥ 1.0-8), fdrtool (≥ 1.2.6)
Published: 2012-12-04
Author: Tim Coelli, Arne Henningsen
Maintainer: Arne Henningsen <arne.henningsen at gmail.com>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: http://frontier.r-forge.r-project.org/
NeedsCompilation: yes
In views: Econometrics
CRAN checks: frontier results

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Reference manual: frontier.pdf
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Old sources: frontier archive