Stochastic Frontier Analysis CRAN Task View: Econometrics (http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Econometrics) Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Functions. Two specifications are available: the error components specification with time-varying efficiencies (Battese and Coelli, 1992) and a model specification in which the firm effects are directly influenced by a number of variables (Battese and Coelli, 1995). Software Depends: R (>= 2.0.0), plm (>= 1.0-1), micEcon (>= 0.6-1), miscTools (>= 0.6-1), Formula (>= 0.2-0), lmtest (>= 0.9-24) Imports: moments (>= 0.11) Suggests: MCMCpack (>= 1.0-8), fdrtool (>= 1.2.6) Arne Henningsen <arne.henningsen@gmail.com> Tim Coelli, Arne Henningsen GPL (>= 2) 2012-03-04 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=frontier