This article examines the empirical performance of alternative frontier estimators' ability to replicate a known … restricting errors to be above the cost frontier, the stochastic frontier method, and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The data … two output firms. The DEA estimator was most robust in estimating the "true" cost frontier and associated economic …

production inefficiency among smallholder farmers using stochastic frontier and beta regression models, respectively. Hence, 400 … frontier result shows that the number of oxen, amount of urea fertilizer, and seed had a positive and statistically significant …