TY - BOOK AU - Vaart, A.W. van der TI - Asymptotic statistics SN - 9780521784504 U1 - R 519.5 VAA(ASY) PY - 2007/// CY - New Delhi PB - Cambridge KW - Mathematical statistics--Asymptotic theory KW - Asymptotic efficiencies (Statistics) N1 - Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Stochastic convergence 3. The delta-method 4. Moment estimators 5. M- and Z-estimators 6. Contiguity 7. Local asymptotic normality 8. Efficiency of estimators 9. Limits of experiments 10. Bayes procedures 11. Projections 12. U-statistics 13. Rank, sign, and permutation statistics 14. Relative efficiency of tests 15. Efficiency of tests 16. Likelihood ratio tests 17. Chi-square tests 18. Stochastic convergence in metric spaces 19. Empirical processes 20. The functional delta-method 21. Quantiles and order statistics 22. L-statistics 23. The bootstrap 24. Non parametric density estimation 25. Semi parametric models. includes index ER -