Pitfalls of Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Models

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-182

  Ritter, Christian ^a   Simar, Léopold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Identifiability; Least squares; Likelihood; Profile; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001479142     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007751524050     Document Type: Article

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