The economic literature proposes several nonparametric frontier estimators based on the idea of enveloping the data (FDH and DEA-type estimators). Many have claimed that FDH and DEA techniques are non-statistical, as opposed to econometric approaches where particular parametric expressions are posited to model the frontier. We can now define a statistical model allowing determinion of the statistical properties of the non-parametric estimators in the multi-output and multi-input case. This paper summarizes the results wihic are now available, and provides a brief guide to the existing literature. Stressing the role of hypotheses and inference, we show how the results can be used or adapted for practical purposes.
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Paper provided by Catholique de Louvain - Institut de statistique in its series Papers with number
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Length: 36 pages Date of creation: 1999 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fth:louvis:9904
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