Аннотация: The approach based on the concept of stochastic frontier, to assessing of research team’s human capital, performing research with the financial support of the Science Foundation. The relevance of the problem is determined by the expansion of the use of competitive basis funding for research. As an estimate of research team’s human capital accepted the potential size of the financing in terms of effective use of research team’s human capital. Presents an econometric model, allowed to obtain estimates of the efficiency of research team’s human capital, have received financial support fund for scientific research. As a measure of efficiency is considered matching the size of the financial support of his research team characteristics of human capital. Formulated statistical hypothesis, test results which can be used to improve the competitive application forms and expert profiles, used the fund. It is noted, that when checking the hypothesis of no inefficiency of research team’s human capital, should be used the machine of copula functions, expanding the scope of the stochastic frontier methodology at the expense of rejection of the assumption of independence of the random components of the econometric model and allowing a correct estimates of the efficiency in terms of their dependence.