sfadv

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Advanced Methods for Stochastic Frontier Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Yann DesjeuxFirst published 2017-06-191 releasesCRAN page ↗

Stochastic frontier analysis with advanced methods. In particular, it applies the approach proposed by Latruffe et al. (2017) DOI:10.1093/ajae/aaw077 to estimate a stochastic frontier with technical inefficiency effects when one input is endogenous.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("sfadv", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-sfadv

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-sfadv

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

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Dependencies

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2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

gmm minpack.lm

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People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Yann Desjeux

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Authors (2)

Yann Desjeux

Author, Maintainer

Laure Latruffe

Author

Contributors (1)

Alain Carpentier

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-19
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 131 KB
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