sfaR

Maximum likelihood estimation for stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of production (profit) and cost functions. The package includes the basic stochastic frontier for cross-sectional or pooled data with several distributions for the one-sided error term (i.e., Rayleigh, gamma, Weibull, lognormal, uniform, generalized exponential and truncated skewed Laplace), the latent class stochastic frontier model (LCM) as described in Dakpo et al. (2021) doi:10.1111/1477-9552.12422, for cross-sectional and pooled data, and the sample selection model as described in Greene (2010) doi:10.1007/s11123-009-0159-1, and applied in Dakpo et al. (2021) doi:10.1111/agec.12683. Several possibilities in terms of optimization algorithms are proposed.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 618 times in the last 30 days. More downloads than an obscure whitepaper, but not enough to bring down any servers. A solid effort! The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 6 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 5,995 times in the last 365 days. A solid achievement! Enough downloads to get noticed at department meetings. The day with the most downloads was Feb 05, 2025 with 77 downloads.

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