Purpose - While there exist many surveys on the use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), many important issues and techniques in SFA were not well elaborated in the previous surveys, namely, regular models, copula modeling, nonparametric estimation by Grenander’s method of sieves, empirical...

The connection between regularization and min–max robustification in the presence of unobservable covariate measurement errors in linear mixed models is addressed. We prove that regularized model parameter estimation is equivalent to robust loss minimization under a min–max approach. On the...