Browsing by Author "Simar, Léopold"

Now showing items 1-3 of 3

2005-10-17Buch

How to Improve the Performances of DEA/FDHEstimators in the Presence of Noise?

Simar, Léopold

In frontier analysis, most of the nonparametric approaches (DEA, FDH) are based on envelopment ideas which suppose that with probability one, all the observed units belong to the attainable set. In these "deterministic" ...
1997-08-01Buch

On Estimation of Monotone and Concave Frontier Functions

Gijbels, I.; Mammen, Enno; Park, Byeong U.; Simar, Léopold

When analyzing the productivity of firms, one may want to compare how the firms transform a set of inputs x (typically labor, energy or capital) into an output y (typically a quantity of goods produced). The economic ...
2001-06-22Buch

Semiparametric Estimation in Single Index Poisson Regression: A Practical Approach

Climov, Daniela; Delecroix, Michel; Simar, Léopold