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| From | "Rao, James" <James.Rao@agr.uni-goettingen.de> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: Re: low values of sigma v in frontier analysis |
| Date | Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:29:44 +0100 |
Dear Statalisters,
I am running a frontier (stochastic production frontier) model for technical
efficiency and I seem to be getting an extremely low value for "sigma v"
which implies no stochastic error. Anyone with an idea why this could be so?
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