Asymptotic Statistics [Paperback]

I: Asymptotic Expansions in Statistics1 by Rabi Bhattacharya.- ?1. Cram?r-Egeworth Expansions.- ?2. Expansions of Distributions of Statistics Admitting Stochastic Expansions.- ?3. Cornish-Fisher Expansions.- ?4. Second Order Efficiency.- ?5. Bootstrap and Edgeworth Expansion.- ?6. Notes and References.- References.- II: Weak Convergence in Nonparametric Statistics by Manfred Denker.- 1: Symmetric Statistics.- 1. Definition of Symmetric Statistics.- 2. A Distributional Limit Theorem.- 3. Two Applications.- 4. Probability Theory for Symmetric Statistics.- References.- 2: Statistics Based on Ranking Methods.- 1. Definition of Rank Statistics.- 2. First Examples.- 3. The Asymptotic Distribution of Rank Statistics.- 4. Applications of Theorem 2.2.- 5. Some Open Problems.- 6. Remarks on Efficiency.- References.Springer Book Archives