On Estimation of Monotone and Concave Frontier Functions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 220-228

  Gijbels, Irène ^a   Mammen, Enno ^b   Park, Byeong U ^c   Simar, Léopold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Bias correction; Confidence interval; Data envelopment analysis; Density support; Frontier function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442309450     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473837     Document Type: Article

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