Posterior analysis of stochastic frontier models with truncated normal errors

Computational Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 559-575

  Tsionas, Efthymios G ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Efficiency; Gibbs sampling; Stochastic frontier model; Truncated normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035561816     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s180-001-8330-0     Document Type: Article

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