Heterogeneities in stochastic production frontier models with application to world health organization’s panel data.

• Main Authors: Sun, Gongshi., Wang, Yi.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory::Microeconomics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48845
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Though there exist various researches on how to separate heterogeneity and inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, due to the ambiguity in definitions, it is difficult, if not impossible, to separate the two entirely without strong distribution assumptions. This study will walk through existin...