Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85868 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 02-012/2
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper concentrates on negatively skewed one-sided distributions as an explanation ofthe occurence of positive (negative) skewness in the case of stochastic production (cost) frontieranalysis. It takes as example the binomial distribution that can have negative or positive skewand derives the method-of-moments estimators.
Subjects: 
production frontier
cost frontier
skewness
binomial distribution.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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