--- title: "Multiple pollutants and heterogeneous coefficients" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Multiple pollutants and heterogeneous coefficients} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 6, fig.height = 4) ``` ```{r setup} library(pgt) ``` A technology can carry several pollutants, each with its own materials-balance account, and the material flow coefficients can vary across units (heterogeneous input quality; Eder 2022, Rødseth 2025). This vignette demonstrates multi-pollutant accounts, DMU-specific coefficients, several intended outputs and the five-component decomposition, on a small synthetic example. ## A two-pollutant technology Forty plants burn coal and gas. Each fuel carries CO2 potential and SO2 potential, with different coefficients; a share of the CO2 potential is retained in the product ($v_{CO2} = 0.1$), none of the SO2. `b` is a matrix with one named column per pollutant, `u` a named list with one element per pollutant, and `v` a named vector. ```{r} set.seed(42) L <- 40 coal <- runif(L, 20, 60) gas <- runif(L, 10, 40) y <- runif(L, 15, 45) u_co2 <- c(coal = 2.5, gas = 1.4) u_so2 <- c(coal = 0.020, gas = 0.001) cap_co2 <- 2.5 * coal + 1.4 * gas - 0.1 * y cap_so2 <- 0.020 * coal + 0.001 * gas b_co2 <- cap_co2 * runif(L, 0.55, 0.95) b_so2 <- cap_so2 * runif(L, 0.55, 0.95) # three plants under-report scrubbing and breach their SO2 account b_so2[1:3] <- cap_so2[1:3] * runif(3, 1.05, 1.25) tech2 <- pgt_tech( x = cbind(coal = coal, gas = gas), y = y, b = cbind(co2 = b_co2, so2 = b_so2), u = list(co2 = u_co2, so2 = u_so2), v = c(co2 = 0.1, so2 = 0), group = factor(rep(c("A", "B"), each = L / 2)) ) tech2 ``` `mb_check()` audits one account per plant and pollutant; the three seeded SO2 violations surface immediately. ```{r} mb <- mb_check(tech2) table(subset(as.data.frame(mb), violated)$pollutant) ``` ## Every pollutant's cap constrains the input-fixed benchmark The faithful `"wgd"` programme of Eq. 6 uses only the selected pollutant's data. Cross-account discipline lives in the input-fixed benchmark: `pgt(model = "wgd_input_fixed")` selects one pollutant for the objective through `pollutant`, but the caps of every pollutant constrain the peer mix (see `vignette("models", "pgt")` for the collapsed cap rows). A peer that looks attractive on CO2 can be unusable because leaning on it would breach the evaluated plant's SO2 account. ```{r} fit_co2 <- pgt(tech2, model = "wgd_input_fixed", pollutant = "co2") summary(fit_co2) ``` Dropping the SO2 account (a single-pollutant technology on the same data) weakly lowers every `b_star`, since the projection loses one set of constraints: ```{r} tech1 <- pgt_tech( x = cbind(coal = coal, gas = gas), y = y, b = b_co2, u = u_co2, v = 0.1, group = factor(rep(c("A", "B"), each = L / 2)) ) fit1 <- pgt(tech1, model = "wgd_input_fixed") summary(fit1$results$b_star - fit_co2$results$b_star) ``` The three SO2 violators show the documented boundary behaviour: a plant violating another pollutant's identity loses its self-reference, so its CO2 score can exceed 1 (its MB-consistent projection emits more CO2 than the plant reports) or its programme can be infeasible. Neither happens for plants whose accounts all hold. ```{r} head(cbind(fit_co2$results[c("id", "efficiency", "status")], so2_violated = mb$violated[mb$pollutant == "so2"]), 5) ``` ## DMU-specific coefficients Coefficients can vary by plant, for example with coal quality (Eder 2022): pass an $L \times N$ matrix per pollutant instead of a vector. Here the first twenty plants burn higher-carbon coal. ```{r} U_co2 <- matrix(u_co2, L, 2, byrow = TRUE, dimnames = list(NULL, c("coal", "gas"))) U_co2[1:20, "coal"] <- 2.8 tech_het <- pgt_tech( x = cbind(coal = coal, gas = gas), y = y, b = pmin(b_co2, (2.8 * coal + 1.4 * gas - 0.1 * y) * 0.95), u = U_co2, v = 0.1 ) fit_het <- pgt(tech_het, model = "wgd_input_fixed") median(fit_het$results$efficiency, na.rm = TRUE) ``` Each plant's cap now uses its own coefficients, so two plants with the same fuel bill face different materials-balance ceilings. The input coefficients do not enter the reduced form of the faithful `"wgd"` programme (only the output coefficients $v_i$ do); producer-specific $u$ instead surfaces in the `quality` component of the decomposition below. ## The five-component decomposition `pgt_decompose(type = "rodseth")` splits the weak-G-disposability score into the five components of Rødseth (2025, Eq. 11): production technical efficiency, coefficient quality, production allocative efficiency, abatement technical efficiency and abatement allocative efficiency (the stage programmes are stated in `vignette("models", "pgt")`). A component collapses to exactly 1 when the data cannot separate it. Here no abatement output is observed and no pollution-control input is marked, so the two abatement components are 1, while the heterogeneous coefficients of `tech_het` activate the quality component. ```{r} dec <- pgt_decompose(tech_het, type = "rodseth") summary(dec) ``` The product of the five components equals the `"wgd"` efficiency exactly, and technology groups are not required for this type. ## Several intended outputs Good outputs can be a matrix with one named column per output, and the retained content becomes $v_i'y_i$ with one coefficient per output. Here the plants sell power and process heat, retaining different carbon shares per unit, and the programme holds both outputs at the evaluated plant's levels. ```{r} y2 <- cbind(power = y, heat = runif(L, 5, 20)) tech_m <- pgt_tech( x = cbind(coal = coal, gas = gas), y = y2, b = b_co2, u = u_co2, v = c(0.10, 0.05) ) fit_m <- pgt(tech_m, model = "wgd") head(fit_m$results, 3) ``` The fit carries one column per output and per-output duals (`dual_power`, `dual_heat`). Every model except `"fdmo"` handles several outputs; `mac_curve()` needs a single-output fit, while `shadow_prices()` reports every output dual. ## References - Eder, A. (2022). Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach. *Journal of Productivity Analysis*, 57(2), 157-176. doi:10.1007/s11123-021-00623-y - Rødseth, K. L. (2025). On the development of a unified, nonparametric materials balance-based efficiency analysis model and its applications. *Journal of Productivity Analysis*, 64(3), 305-319. doi:10.1007/s11123-025-00768-0