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  <dc:title>Stochastic Metafrontier Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package smfa version 1.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements stochastic metafrontier analysis for productivity and
    performance benchmarking across firms operating under different
    technologies. Contains routines for the deterministic metafrontier envelope
    of O'Donnell et al. (2008) &lt;doi:10.1007/s00181-007-0119-4&gt; via linear and
    quadratic programming, and the stochastic metafrontier of Huang et al.
    (2014) &lt;doi:10.1007/s11123-014-0402-2&gt;. Also supports latent class
    stochastic metafrontier analysis and sample selection correction stochastic
    metafrontier models. Depends on the 'sfaR' package by Dakpo et al. (2023)
    &lt;https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sfaR&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0), sfaR</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown, lmtest</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Sulman Olieko Owili &lt;oliekosulman@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Sulman Olieko Owili [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7401-5326&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-28</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=smfa</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.smfa</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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