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... The profit function approach combines the concepts of technical and allocative efficiency in the profit relationship and any errors in the production decision are assumed to be ... See full document

... A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production analysis approach with the inefficiency effect model to estimate technical efficiency and identify the determinants of ... See full document

... The stochastic frontier production function resulted that, the coefficients of inputs like bulb, plant protection chemicals, human labour and machine hours were significant at 1% respectively ... See full document

... CONCLUSION This study use stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier to estimate farm level technical efficiency using input and output data from 84 farms from Ahmadabad tehsil of distr[r] ... See full document

... used Cobb-Douglas stochastic revenue function to estimate economic efficiency of yam farmers in south eastern ...economic efficiency of 41% was ...yam farmers. ... See full document

... rice production has increased in Nigeria since the 1960s given increases in rice land area, rice production has not been able to keep pace with Abstract: This study analyzed the technical efficiency ... See full document

... of Cobb-Douglas production function revealed that majority of the explanatory variables had contri- buted significantly to the maize ...that among the independent variables seed is ... See full document

... a Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function to measure the level of technical efficiency and its determinants in small-holder cocoyam production in ... See full document

... improve production and productivity with a given input mix and available technology is to improve efficiency of resource ...technical efficiency of the production process is very ...technical ... See full document

... economic efficiency of rabbit production in Anambra State of Nigeria employing a stochastic Profit Function ...rabbit farmers in Anambra State. Stochastic Cobb - ... See full document

... in profit attributed to the factors outside the farmer‟s control (random effects, measurement errors, omitted explanatory variables and statistical ...the profit shortfall from its maximum possible value ... See full document

... Data Analysis Technical efficiency was analysed through estimation of the Stochastic Frontier Production function using the Cobb Douglas functional form was used to analyse the technical[r] ... See full document

... the efficiency of SSO’s health care services in quest for solutions to alleviate the potentially critical situation ...microeconomic analysis was carried out by panel stochastic frontier ... See full document

... the production efficiency of agricultural system in four regions of India categorized as eastern, western, northern and southern regions using state level data for the period 2005-06 to 2013- ...14. ... See full document

... Ada is characterized by mild weather and represents the country's large middle-altitude cropping zone (1500 to 2000 meters above sea level). The major crops grown include teff, wheat, barley, horse beans, chickpeas and ... See full document

... of the province still lag behind. For example, Zhenjiang Municipality initiated “3+X” family health responsibility team to make use of health human resource as much as possible and to improve human resource allocation ... See full document

... The purpose of this note is to point out a significant error in the exposition and application of the method of indirect least squares; to show that - with given specification - this met[r] ... See full document

... this function, where parameters are estimated by an ordinary least squares procedure (OLS) and transformed to the nonlinear ...production function. In case of the CDPF the only way this ... See full document

... and stochastic specifications in the forms of simultaneous equations have been explained for Cobb-Douglas and CES production function ...nonlinear production function ... See full document

... The present study uses the farm-level cross section data from small dairy farmers of north india for the year 2009–2010. The sample farms were selected by using a two-stage random sampling technique. in the first ... See full document