On ranking and selection from independent truncated normal distributions

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 335-354

  Horrace, William C ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ranking and selection; Stochastic frontier; Truncated normal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; RANKING AND SELECTION; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER; TRUNCATED NORMAL;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 14844297392     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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