Table: Frontier Software Tools (All Methods)

Language

Type

Author(s)

AMPL

DEA

Green (1996)

GAMS

DEA

Olesen & Petersen (1996); Ferris & Voelker (2002)

Mathematica

DEA

Ley (1996)

SAS

DEA

Emrouznejad (2005)

VBA

DEA

Zhu (2003)

Program

 

Author(s) and/or Web Page

BSFMF

Stoch. Fr.

Arickx, Broeckhove, Dejonghe & van den Broeck (1997)

DEA Excel SolverF

DEA

Zhu (2003); www.deafrontier.com/deasolver.html

DEAP (v 2.1)F

DEA

Coelli (1996); www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa

DEAQualF

DEA

http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/%7Ekamakura/bio/WagnerKamakuraDownloads.htm

DEA-Solver-Pro

DEA

www.saitech-inc.com/Products/Prod-DSP.asp

EMSF

DEA

www.wiso.uni-dortmund.de/lsfg/or/scheel/ems

FEARF

DEA

Wilson (2008); www.clemson.edu/economics/faculty/ wilson/Software/FEAR/fear.html

Frontier (v 4.1)F

Stoch. Fr.

Coelli (1996); www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa

Frontier Analyst

DEA

www.banxia.com/famain.html

LIMDEP

Stoch. Fr. & DEA

www.limdep.com

OnFront

DEA

www.emq.com/software.html

PIM-DEAsoft

DEA

www.deasoftware.co.uk

ISYDS (SIAD)F

DEA

Angula-Meza et al. (2005); http://www.uff.br/decisao/

Stata

Stoch. Fr.

www.stata.com

StoNEDF

Stoch. DEA

Kuosmanen (2006, 2007); Kuosmanen & Kortelainen (2007); www.nomepre.net/stoned

TFPIP (v 1.0)F

Indices

Coelli (1997); www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa

xlDEA

DEA

www.prodtools.com/Products.html#

WinBUGSF

Stoch. Fr.

Griffin &Steel (2007); www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/ statistics/staff/academic/steel/steel_homepage/software/

Online Program

 

Web Page

DEA Solver OnlineF

Stoch. Fr.

www.dea.uni-hohenheim.de/index.php

* F = Freely available

 

 

Software Reviews:

Barr, R.S. (2004) DEA Software Tools and Technology: A State-of-the-Art Survey, in: W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu (eds) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, Kluwer, Boston, 539 566.

Herrero, I., S. Pascoe (2002) Estimation of Technical Efficiency: A Review of Some of the Stochastic Frontier and DEA Software, CHEER Virtual Edition, 15(1).

Hollingsworth, B. (1997) A Review of Data Envelopment Analysis Software. Economic Journal, 107(443), 1268-1270.

Hollingsworth, B. (1999) Data Envelopment Analysis and Productivity Analysis: A Review of the Options, Economic Journal, 109(456), F458-F462.

Hollingsworth, B. (2004) Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement, Economic Journal, 114(496), 307-311.

Sena, V. (1999) Stochastic Frontier Estimation: A Review of the Software Options. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14(5), 579-586.

 

References:

Angula-Meza, L.A., L. Biondi Neto, J.C.C.B. Soares de Mello, E.G. Gomes (2005) ISYDS - Integrated System for Decision Support (SIAD - Sistema Integrado de Apoio a Decisao): Software Package for Data Envelopment Analysis Model, Pesquisa Operacional, 25(3), 493 503.

Arickx F., J. Broeckhove, M. Dejonghe, J. van den Broeck (1997) BSFM: A Computer Program for Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Models, Computational Statistics, 12(3), 403-421.

Emrouznejad, A. (2005) Measurement Efficiency and Productivity in SAS/OR, Computers and Operations Research, 32(7), 1665-1683.

Coelli, T.J. (1996) A Guide to FRONTIER Version 4.1: A Computer Program for Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Function Estimation, CEPA Working Paper 96/7, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Armidale NSW Australia.

Coelli, T.J. (1996) A Guide to DEAP Version 2.1: A Data Envelopment Analysis (Computer) Program, CEPA Working Paper 96/8, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Armidale NSW Australia.

Coelli, T.J. (1997) A Guide to TFPIP Version 1.0: A Total Factor Productivity Index (Computer) Program, mimeo, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Armidale NSW Australia.

Ferris, M.C., M.M. Voelker (2002) Slice Models in General Purpose Modeling Systems: An Application to DEA, Optimization Methods and Software, 17(6), 1009-1032.

Green, R.H. (1996) Implementing Data Envelopment Analysis in the Mathematical Programming Language AMPL, Omega, 24(4), 489-494.

Griffin, J., M.F.J. Steel (2007) Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using WinBUGS, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 27(3), 163-176.

Kuosmanen, T. (2006) Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data: Combining Virtues of SFA and DEA in a Unified Framework, MTT Discussion Paper No. 3/2006.

Kuosmanen, T. (2007) Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Panel Data: Frontier Estimation with Fixed and Random Effects Approaches, paper presented at EWEPA X, June 27-30, 2007, Lille, France.

Kuosmanen, T., M. Kortelainen (2007) Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data: Cross-Sectional Frontier Estimation Subject to Shape Constraints, University of Joensuu, Economics Discussion Paper No. 46.

Ley, E. (1996) Data Screening and Data Envelopment Analysis, in: H. Varian (ed) Computational Economics and Finance: Modelling and Analysis with Mathematica, New York, Springer, 120-130.

Olesen, O., N. Petersen (1996) A Presentation of GAMS for DEA, Computers and Operations Research, 23(4), 323-339.

Wilson, P.W. (2008) FEAR: A Software Package for Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 42(4), 247-254.

Zhu, J.(2003) Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: Data Envelopment Analysis with Spreadsheets and DEA Excel Solver, Kluwer, Boston.