Flexible mixture modelling of stochastic frontiers

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-50

  Griffin, J E ^a   Steel, M F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centring; Efficiency; Generalized gamma distribution; Prior elicitation; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 37449029687     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0064-4     Document Type: Article

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