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  <dc:title>Copula-Based Stochastic Frontier Models</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package copulaSFM version 0.2.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Provides estimation procedures for copula-based stochastic frontier
  models for cross-sectional data. The package implements maximum likelihood
  estimation of stochastic frontier models allowing flexible dependence
  structures between inefficiency and noise terms through various copula
  families (e.g., Gaussian and Student-t). It enables estimation of technical
  efficiency scores, log-likelihood values, and information criteria (AIC and
  BIC). The implemented framework builds upon stochastic frontier analysis
  introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977) &lt;doi:10.1016/0304-4076(77)90052-5&gt;
  and the copula theory described in Joe (2014, ISBN:9781466583221).
  Empirical applications of copula-based stochastic frontier models can be
  found in Wiboonpongse et al. (2015) &lt;doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2015.06.001&gt; and
  Maneejuk et al. (2017, ISBN:9783319562176).</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, graphics, truncnorm, VineCopula, MASS</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Woraphon Yamaka &lt;woraphon.econ@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Woraphon Yamaka [aut, cre],
  Paravee Maneejuk [aut],
  Nuttaphong Kaewtathip [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-03-05</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=copulaSFM</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.copulaSFM</dc:identifier>
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