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Frontier 4.1 (Software for Stochastic Fronttier Analysis) FRONTIER Version 4.1 The computer program was written by who is professor at the. Modified version has slightly modified this computer program:. The user can specify the instruction file by an (optional) argument at the command line now. If the user adds the name of the instruction file after the command to run FRONTIER 4.1, the program does not interact with the user, but uses the instruction file specified in the call.
Hence, this modified version of FRONTIER 4.1 can be run automatically (non-interactively). The source code can be compiled with the free now. The version number reported by FRONTIER has been changed from 4.1c to 4.1d. Download This modified version is available for download from here (with permission of ):. Source code:. Binary for GNU-Linux.:.
Binary for MS-Windows.:. Start-up file (unmodified):. A manual and examples are available on.
The binaries have been compiled with using the options '-static' for static linking (no dynamic linking with the shared libraries) and '-O2' for using optimization level 2. Using this modified version of FRONTIER 4.1 with. Instruction files, data files, and start-up files for FRONTIER 4.1 can be conveniently created by the function 'front41WriteInput' from the package (available also on ). Then, the modified version of FRONTIER 4.1 can be called from within using the 'system' command (see example in documentation of 'front41WriteInput'). Finally, the output file from FRONTIER 4.1 can be read by the function 'front41ReadOutput' from the package (available also on ).
This simplifies further calculations based the estimation results. However, it is probably more convenient to use the function 'frontier' from the package that estimates a Stochastic Frontier Model with a single command by internally using the FRONTIER 4.1 software. Last Update: 10 January 2009.