%0 Journal Article %T Funciones de producci¨®n, an¨¢lisis de econom¨ªas a escala y eficiencia t¨¦cnica en el eje cafetero colombiano: una aproximaci¨®n con frontera estoc¨¢stica %A PERDOMO %A JORGE ANDR¨¦S %A HUETH %A DARRELL LEE %J Revista Colombiana de Estad¨ªstica %D 2011 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X this article is an empirical study about flexible and conventional functional forms of coffee production, minflex laurent translog function econometrically has been established in colombia coffee zone for the farm size (smallholders, medium and large farms, general sector), using a stochastic frontier model through standard maximum likelihood method. likewise, their returns to scale and technical efficiency were derived. %K elasticity %K functional form %K maximum likelihood estimation %K production function %K stochastic regression. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-17512011000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en