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Asymptotics in Statistics–Some Basic Concepts

T. N Sriram
- 01 Mar 2002 - 
- Vol. 97, Iss: 457, pp 356-356
TLDR
In this article, the convergence of Distri butions of Likelihood Ratio has been discussed, and the authors propose a method to construct a set of limit laws for Likelihood Ratios.
Abstract
1 Introduction.- 2 Experiments, Deficiencies, Distances v.- 2.1 Comparing Risk Functions.- 2.2 Deficiency and Distance between Experiments.- 2.3 Likelihood Ratios and Blackwell's Representation.- 2.4 Further Remarks on the Convergence of Distri butions of Likelihood Ratios.- 2.5 Historical Remarks.- 3 Contiguity - Hellinger Transforms.- 3.1 Contiguity.- 3.2 Hellinger Distances, Hellinger Transforms.- 3.3 Historical Remarks.- 4 Gaussian Shift and Poisson Experiments.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Gaussian Experiments.- 4.3 Poisson Experiments.- 4.4 Historical Remarks.- 5 Limit Laws for Likelihood Ratios.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Auxiliary Results.- 5.2.1 Lindeberg's Procedure.- 5.2.2 Levy Splittings.- 5.2.3 Paul Levy's Symmetrization Inequalities.- 5.2.4 Conditions for Shift-Compactness.- 5.2.5 A Central Limit Theorem for Infinitesimal Arrays.- 5.2.6 The Special Case of Gaussian Limits.- 5.2.7 Peano Differentiable Functions.- 5.3 Limits for Binary Experiments.- 5.4 Gaussian Limits.- 5.5 Historical Remarks.- 6 Local Asymptotic Normality.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Locally Asymptotically Quadratic Families.- 6.3 A Method of Construction of Estimates.- 6.4 Some Local Bayes Properties.- 6.5 Invariance and Regularity.- 6.6 The LAMN and LAN Conditions.- 6.7 Additional Remarks on the LAN Conditions.- 6.8 Wald's Tests and Confidence Ellipsoids.- 6.9 Possible Extensions.- 6.10 Historical Remarks.- 7 Independent, Identically Distributed Observations.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The Standard i.i.d. Case: Differentiability in Quadratic Mean.- 7.3 Some Examples.- 7.4 Some Nonparametric Considerations.- 7.5 Bounds on the Risk of Estimates.- 7.6 Some Cases Where the Number of Observations Is Random.- 7.7 Historical Remarks.- 8 On Bayes Procedures.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Bayes Procedures Behave Nicely.- 8.3 The Bernstein-von Mises Phenomenon.- 8.4 A Bernstein-von Mises Result for the i.i.d. Case.- 8.5 Bayes Procedures Behave Miserably.- 8.6 Historical Remarks.- Author Index.

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