Package: Benchmarking
Type: Package
Title: Benchmark and Frontier Analysis Using DEA and SFA
Version: 0.29
Date: 2020-8-8
Author: Peter Bogetoft and Lars Otto
Maintainer: Lars Otto <larsot23@gmail.com>
Depends: lpSolveAPI, ucminf, quadprog
Imports: methods, stats, graphics, grDevices, Rcpp
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Description: Methods for frontier
	analysis, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), under different
	technology assumptions (fdh, vrs, drs, crs, irs, add/frh, and fdh+),
	and using different efficiency measures (input based, output based,
	hyperbolic graph, additive, super, and directional efficiency). Peers
	and slacks are available, partial price information can be included,
	and optimal cost, revenue and profit can be calculated. Evaluation of
	mergers is also supported.  Methods for graphing the technology sets
	are also included. There is also support for comparative methods based
	on Stochastic Frontier Analyses (SFA) and for convex nonparametric 
	least squares for convex functions (StoNED). In general, the methods 
	can be used to solve not only standard models, but also many other 
	model variants. It complements the book, Bogetoft and Otto,
	Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R, Springer-Verlag, 2011, but can of
	course also be used as a stand-alone package.
License: GPL (>= 2)
LazyLoad: yes
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2020-08-07 08:49:15 UTC; lao
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2020-08-07 09:52:06 UTC
Built: R 4.0.5; x86_64-w64-mingw32; 2022-04-21 02:00:25 UTC; windows
Archs: i386, x64
