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Some Limit Theorems in Statistics

Some Limit Theorems in Statistics

Some Limit Theorems in Statistics

R. R. Bahadur
January 1987
Paperback
9780898711752
$41.99
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Paperback

    A discussion of some topics in the theory of large deviations such as moment-generating functions and Chernoff's theorem, and of aspects of estimation and testing in large samples, such as exact slopes of test statistics.

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    January 1987
    Paperback
    9780898711752
    48 pages
    255 × 178 × 100 mm
    0.3kg
    This item is not supplied by Cambridge University Press in your region. Please contact Soc for Industrial & Applied Mathematics for availability.

    Table of Contents

    • Moment-generating Functions
    • Chernoff's Theorem
    • The Kullback- Leibler Information Number
    • Some Examples of Large Deviation Probabilities
    • Stein's Lemma
    • Asymptotic Effective Variances
    • Exact Slopes of Test Statistics
    • Some Examples of Exact Slopes
    • The Existence and Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimates
    • The Exact Slope of the Likelihood Ratio Statistic.