Showing papers on "Data envelopment analysis published in 1977"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the disturbance term as the sum of symmetric normal and (negative) half-normal random variables, and consider various aspects of maximum-likelihood estimation for the coefficients of a production function with an additive disturbance term of this sort.
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TL;DR: In this article, a statistical model for a production frontier that is consistent with the traditional (nonstochastic) definition of a production function given in microeconomic theory is proposed. But the model is restricted to the familiar average production function and an envelope production function.
Abstract: This paper considers a statistical model for a production frontier that is consistent with the traditional (nonstochastic) definition of a production function given in microeconomic theory Limiting cases of the model are the familiar average production function and an envelope production function Maximum-likelihood estimators for the parameters of the model are defined The three related models are applied in the estimation of a production frontier for the Pastoral Zone of Eastern Australia with use of data from the Australian Grazing Industry Survey
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