On the Estimation of Production Frontiers: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Parameters of a Discontinuous Density Function

Abstract

A previous draft of this paper also appeared under the title Regression estimation with an asymmetric criterion function ... [in] July, 1974.

Keywords

EstimationFunction (biology)StatisticsEconometricsProduction (economics)MathematicsMaximum likelihoodRegressionLikelihood functionApplied mathematicsEconomicsMicroeconomicsBiology

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Year: 1976
Type: article
Volume: 17
Issue: 2
Pages: 377-377
Citations: 222
Access: Closed

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                                    Dennis J. Aigner, 
                                
                                    Takeshi Amemiya, 
                                
                                    D. Poirier
                                
                            (1976). 
                            On the Estimation of Production Frontiers: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Parameters of a Discontinuous Density Function. 
                            International Economic Review
                            , 17
                            (2)
                            , 377-377.
                            https://doi.org/10.2307/2525708

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DOI: 10.2307/2525708