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It will be a good guide to execute the work for doing SFA, I believe. Today I got this pdf file in the web.
Title: "Frontier functions: Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)"
Contents:
0. Introduction: the purpose of frontier functions
1. Review of OLS regression
2. Review of MLE
3. Review of probability distributions from 0 to infinity
4. One sided disturbances, especially the Gamma distribution
5. Composite disturbances
6. Fixed and random effects in frontier models
7. Corrected OLS and fixed effects as measures of efficiency
8. Stata: frontier and xtfrontier
9. What Stata allows and what Stata does not allow
10. Output of successful frontier estimation by Stata
11. Stata estimation of frontier functions sometimes fails
12. Output of failed frontier estimation by Stata
13. Data Envelopment Analysis (linear programming)
13.1 DEA estimation
13.2 DEA method
13.3 DEA programs
13.4 Uses of DEA output
13.5 Economics and DEA
14. Data Envelopment Analysis with statistical properties (Ray (2004, Chapter 12))
15. Comparing results of SFA and DEA
16. Possible research on frontier functions
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