A Bayesian approach to imposing curvature on distance functions

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 493-523

  O'Donnell, Christopher J ^a   Coelli, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

European railways; Inequality constraints; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Output distance function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EUROPEAN RAILWAYS; INEQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; OUTPUT DISTANCE FUNCTION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 14844314460     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.05.011     Document Type: Article

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