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		Analysis of Metafrontier Models for Efficiency and Productivity
		// Implements metafrontier production function models for
		estimating technical efficiencies and technology gaps for
		groups of firms that face different restrictions of a common
		underlying metatechnology (group-specific technologies in the
		sense of Battese, Rao, and O'Donnell, 2004). Supports both
		stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and data envelopment
		analysis (DEA) based metafrontiers. Includes the deterministic
		metafrontier of Battese, Rao, and O'Donnell (2004)
		doi:10.1023/B:PROD.0000012454.06094.29, the stochastic
		metafrontier of Huang, Huang, and Liu (2014)
		doi:10.1007/s11123-014-0402-2, and the metafrontier Malmquist
		productivity index of O'Donnell, Rao, and Battese (2008)
		doi:10.1007/s00181-007-0119-4. The deterministic metafrontier
		can be identified by either the minimum sum of absolute
		deviations (LP) or the minimum sum of squared deviations (QP)
		criterion. Additional features include panel SFA with time-
		varying inefficiency, bootstrap confidence intervals for
		technology gap ratios, a DEA poolability permutation test,
		latent class metafrontier estimation via the EM algorithm,
		Murphy-Topel corrected standard errors, convergence
		diagnostics, import of pre-fitted models from external
		estimation engines ('sfaR', 'frontier', 'Benchmarking'), and
		'ggplot2' visualisation methods.
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