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3. Nonparametric Frontier Estimation from Noisy Data

verfasst von : Maik Schwarz, Sébastien Van Bellegem, Jean-Pierre Florens

Erschienen in: Exploring Research Frontiers in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics

Verlag: Physica-Verlag HD

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Abstract

A new nonparametric estimator of production frontiers is defined and studied when the data set of production units is contaminated by measurement error. The measurement error is assumed to be an additive normal random variable on the input variable, but its variance is unknown. The estimator is a modification of the m-frontier, which necessitates the computation of a consistent estimator of the conditional survival function of the input variable given the output variable. In this paper, the identification and the consistency of a new estimator of the survival function is proved in the presence of additive noise with unknown variance. The performance of the estimator is also studied using simulated data.

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Metadaten
Titel
Nonparametric Frontier Estimation from Noisy Data
verfasst von
Maik Schwarz
Sébastien Van Bellegem
Jean-Pierre Florens
Copyright-Jahr
2012
Verlag
Physica-Verlag HD
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2349-3_3