Detecting outliers in frontier models: A simple approach

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 391-424

  Simar, Léopold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Nonparametric frontier models; Outliers; Robust estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543073346     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027308001925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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