David Drukker provided some suggestions to obtain starting values for
-frontier- in the following post:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-05/msg00650.html
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Georgeta Vidican
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: frontier - "initial values not feasible"
>
> Hi there,
>
> I need some help in running a stochastic frontier analysis.
>
> I am using the command "frontier", with output as the dependent
> variable, and a series of inputs to estimate the Cobb-Douglas
> production function, on a sample of 528 farms.
>
> However, I get the following error message "initial values not
> feasible".
>
> Could anyone suggest where the problem comes from?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Georgeta
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