Asymptotic Statistics

A mathematically rigorous, practical introduction presenting standard topics plus research.

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. Nonparametric density estimation; 25. Semiparametric models.