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  <dc:title>Smooth Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package snfa version 0.0.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Fitting of non-parametric production frontiers for use in efficiency analysis.
    Methods are provided for both a smooth analogue of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a 
    non-parametric analogue of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Frontiers are constructed for 
    multiple inputs and a single output using constrained kernel smoothing as in 
    Racine et al. (2009), which allow for the imposition of monotonicity and concavity constraints 
    on the estimated frontier.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: abind (&gt;= 1.4.5), ggplot2 (&gt;= 3.1.0), prodlim (&gt;= 2018.4.18),
quadprog (&gt;= 1.5.5), Rdpack (&gt;= 0.10.1), rootSolve (&gt;= 1.7)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Taylor McKenzie &lt;tkmckenzie@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Taylor McKenzie [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2018-12-01</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=snfa</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.snfa</dc:identifier>
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