The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review
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Stochastic frontier; Wrong skewness; Non-representative sample; Skew Normal; Data mining; Singular Information matrix;All these keywords.
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- C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
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