Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ανάλυση Στοχαστικών Συνόρων (SFA)	Παλινδρόμηση Ελαχίστων Τετραγώνων (OLS)	Παλινδρόμηση Ποσοστημορίων
Πεδίο	Οικονομετρία	Οικονομετρία	Οικονομετρία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	1977	2019	1978
Δημιουργός	Aigner, Lovell & Schmidt (1977); Battese & Coelli (1995) for panels	Wooldridge (textbook treatment); classical least squares	Koenker & Bassett
Τύπος	Frontier regression model	Linear regression	Conditional quantile regression
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Aigner, D., Lovell, C.A.K. & Schmidt, P. (1977). Formulation and Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models. Journal of Econometrics, 6(1), 21–37.	Wooldridge, J. M. (2019). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (7th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-1337558860	Koenker, R. & Bassett, G., Jr. (1978). Regression Quantiles. Econometrica, 46(1), 33-50.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	SFA, stochastic frontier model, stochastic production frontier, Stokastik Sınır Analizi (SFA)	ordinary least squares, classical linear regression, linear regression, en küçük kareler regresyonu	conditional quantile regression, regression quantiles, Kantil Regresyon
Συναφείς	3	5	5
Σύνοψη	Stochastic Frontier Analysis is a frontier regression model, introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt in 1977, that estimates a production, cost, or profit function while separating each unit's technical inefficiency from ordinary statistical noise. It splits the error term into a symmetric random component and a one-sided inefficiency component, producing firm- or country-level efficiency scores.	Ordinary Least Squares is the classical linear regression method that explains a continuous outcome as a linear combination of predictors. It estimates the coefficients by minimising the sum of squared residuals, and under the Gauss-Markov assumptions these estimates are the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE).	Quantile regression models conditional quantiles of an outcome - the median, the 25th or 75th percentile, and so on - rather than the conditional mean that OLS targets. Introduced by Koenker and Bassett in 1978, it reveals how predictors act across the whole distribution, including its tails.