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Hi! A few weeks ago, I have uploaded a new R package "frontier" for Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) [1] to CRAN [2]. It includes the FORTRAN code of Tim Coelli's [3] software "Frontier 4.1" [4]. Hence, the R package "frontier" should have the same capabilities as "Frontier 4.1", i.e. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Functions. Two specifications are available: the error component...

Hi! A few weeks ago, I have uploaded a new R package "frontier" for Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) [1] to CRAN [2]. It includes the FORTRAN code of Tim Coelli's [3] software "Frontier 4.1" [4]. Hence, the R package "frontier" should have the same capabilities as "Frontier 4.1", i.e. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Functions. Two specifications are available: the error component...

...nk. I am free to choose any model of stochastic frontier analysis. The only approach I know to work with R is to estimate a translog production function by sfa or other related function in frontier package, and then use the Ray 1998 formula to find the scale efficiency. However, as the textbook Coelli et al 2005 point out that the concavity may not be satisfied, one needs to impose the nonpositive definiteness condition so that the scale efficiency <1. How can I do it with frontier package? Is there any other SFA model/function in R recommended to find out the scale efficiency and optima...

...<- (-0.5 * nrow(x) *(log(2*pi) + log(sigma2)) -0.5 * sum(( y - x %*% beta + z %*% delta)^2/sigma2) -sum(log(pnorm(d))) + sum(log(pnorm(dstar)))) return(-loglik) } ----------------------------------------------- Loglikelihood function is from page 21of Battese and Coelli (1993). (You can download this article at http://www.une.edu.au/economics/publications/econometrics/emwp69.PDF ) To test the above function with an artificial data set, I created the following data.frame. ----------------------------------------------- x1 <- abs(rnorm(100))*100 x2 <-...

...fit function: e.g. econometric estimation, calculation of price elasticities and shadow prices, imposing convexity - tools for quadratic and translog functions, e.g. econometric estimation, calculation of Hessians and derivatives - functions to write input files for and read output files of Tim Coelli's (1996) program "Frontier 4.1" (http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa/ software.htm). In this way R can use "Frontier 4.1" to perform stochastic frontier analysis. - a function to perform a two-step Heckman ("heckit") estimation to correct for non-random sample...

...ysis (SFA) has been moved to the "frontier" package, because this is a more appropriate place for the functions "front41WriteInput", "front41ReadOutput", and "front41Est", and the corresponding (S3) methods. The data sets "riceProdPhil" and "Coelli" have been removed from the "micEcon" package, because they were already included in the "frontier" package (the latter is named "front41Data" in the "frontier" package). The new "frontier" package (with the "front41..." functions)...

...fit function: e.g. econometric estimation, calculation of price elasticities and shadow prices, imposing convexity - tools for quadratic and translog functions, e.g. econometric estimation, calculation of Hessians and derivatives - functions to write input files for and read output files of Tim Coelli's (1996) program "Frontier 4.1" (http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa/ software.htm). In this way R can use "Frontier 4.1" to perform stochastic frontier analysis. - a function to perform a two-step Heckman ("heckit") estimation to correct for non-random sample...

Hello! When I tried to call Front41 in R, I met some problem. After I entered: system ('front41.exe'), an error occured : "jwe0019i-u The program was terminated abnormally with Exception Code EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. error summary (Fortran) error number error level error count jwe0019i u 1 total error count = 1 FRONTIER - Version 4.1c

I need to estimate maximum tree crown radius and am looking for a package to prepare stochastic frontier models in R. I have not found any package references on Nabble R help, google, or R help. Any tips on a package for this? With regards, Aaron Trowbridge Researcher BV Research Centre Smithers B.C. -- View this message in context:

...ysis (SFA) has been moved to the "frontier" package, because this is a more appropriate place for the functions "front41WriteInput", "front41ReadOutput", and "front41Est", and the corresponding (S3) methods. The data sets "riceProdPhil" and "Coelli" have been removed from the "micEcon" package, because they were already included in the "frontier" package (the latter is named "front41Data" in the "frontier" package). The new "frontier" package (with the "front41..." functions)...

Dear all I am happy to announce that version 1.0 of the "frontier" package is available on CRAN. The R package "frontier" provides tools for analysing efficiency and productivity using the "stochastic frontier" approach. This R package is based on Tim Coelli's DOS software "FRONTIER 4.1" and has been available on CRAN for almost 5 years now. After many improvements of the source code, a few additional features, and a few changes of the user interface in the beginning, the code and the user interface have been rather stable in the previous...