Research Article

The Measures of Efficiency of Power Generation Plants in Sylhet of Bangladesh

Table 4

Maximum-likelihood estimation with time-invariant inefficiency model.

VariableTruncated distribution (time-invariant)Half-normal distribution (time-invariant)
CoefficientSTDCoefficientSTD

Constant−0.916a0.9870.945c0.100
FC0.2820.8290.253a0.838
FCS0.393a0.8560.314a0.832
LOC0.1460.9820.273c0.107
AC0.1940.9200.1450.968
HR0.340a0.9280.2800.999
HOR0.8990.9780.5210.998
FC20.257a0.787−0.1830.765
FCS2−0.1210.826−0.1460.739
LOC20.132a0.9590.1320.176
AC20.8540.8950.8010.531
HR2−0.2710.925−0.2380.611
HOR20.389c0.9790.3320.527
FC × FCS0.7640.6690.6630.648
FC × LOC−0.1390.7750.1230.498
FC × AC−0.440a0.719−0.6400.440
FC × HR0.6630.756−0.7040.574
FC × HOR−0.2190.790−0.2940.744
FCS × LOC0.348a0.8180.357a0.590
FCS × AC−0.9880.7460.9750.433
FCS × HR0.1700.7740.2730.603
FCS × HOR−0.3500.815−0.3590.808
LOC × AC0.8100.8490.8760.211
LOC × HR0.619b0.9180.7230.272
LOC × HOR0.1450.9470.1490.357
AC × HR0.7000.838−0.639b0.282
AC × HOR0.3760.8700.3800.582
HR × HOR0.3420.9000.4170.418
Sigma0.837a0.0560.083a0.011
Gamma0.510a0.8370.092a0.020
Mu−0.183a0.34200
Eta00.57800
Log-likelihood71.58484.638
Mean efficiency0.9300.905

aSignificance at the 1% level; bsignificance at the 5% level; csignificance at the 10% level.