There is some free, light, easy-to-use and, for the stochastic frontier better-than-Stata software from CEPA, somewhere about ther http://www.une.edu.au/econometrics/cepa.htm . Frontier 4.1 and DEAP 2.1
Nicola
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At 02.33 15/01/2009 -0500, you wrote:
>There's no DEA available in Stata (although you can do stochastic frontier
>analysis).
>
>If you want to do both DEA and stochastic frontier analysis using the same
>package, you'll need the latest version of LIMDEP (IIRC it's version 10 you
>need).
>
>Steve
>
>- -----Original Message-----
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>- --- Michael Benarroch wrote to me privately:
>> Did you ever find a way to undertake DEA with STATA?
>
>No, but that does not mean that it can't be done. No single persons knows
>all that is possible with Stata. That is why you are more likely to get a
>success when you ask such a question to the statalist rather than to a
>single person.
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