caa a22 4500 388054816 CHVBK 20180307125103.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1074070800008361 doi S1074070800008361 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1074070800008361 Finite Mixture Estimation of Size Economies and Cost Frontiers in the Face of Multiple Production Technologies [Elektronische Daten] [H. Arlen Smith, C. Robert Taylor] Finite mixture estimation (FME) is compared to estimated generalized least squares (EGLS) in the estimation of economies of size and production cost frontiers for Alabama dairy farms. FME provides several unique insights into the economic forces behind recent changes in Alabama's dairy industry. FME provides estimation of a stochastic average cost frontier with known statistical properties, which it was not otherwise possible to obtain using available stochastic frontier estimation packages. Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1998 dairy nationallicence economies of size nationallicence finite mixture estimation nationallicence stochastic cost frontier nationallicence Smith H. Arlen College of Agriculture, Auburn University aut Taylor C. Robert College of Agriculture, Auburn University aut Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics Cambridge University Press 30/2(1998-12), 379-388 1074-0708 30:2<379 1998 30 AAE https://doi.org/10.1017/S1074070800008361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1074070800008361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smith H. Arlen College of Agriculture, Auburn University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Taylor C. Robert College of Agriculture, Auburn University aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics Cambridge University Press 30/2(1998-12), 379-388 1074-0708 30:2<379 1998 30 AAE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge