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Stochastic Frontier Analysis

v1.0.4 · Jan 21, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Provides a user-friendly framework for estimating a wide variety of cross-sectional and panel stochastic frontier models. Suitable for a broad range of applications, the implementation offers extensive flexibility in specification and estimation techniques.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

package dependencies

Packages required but not available: 'haven', 'Hmisc'

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
WARNING 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
WARNING r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

for unstated dependencies in examples

Warning in file(out, "wt") :
  cannot open file '/tmp/RtmpPIM6r3/filef2dc06091b261/zsfm.R': No space left on device
Error in file(out, "wt") : cannot open the connection
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies devtools pso cubature moments readxl haven fdrtool numDeriv gsl Hmisc plm minqa randtoolbox matrixStats frontier +5 more dependencies sfa

Version History

4 tracked
new 1.0.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0-1 diff Jan 20, 2026
updated 1.0-1 ← 1.0-0 diff Jan 5, 2014
new 1.0-0 Jan 23, 2011