PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION
I INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLES
I.0 Basic Ideas and Conventions
I.1 Tests of Goodness of Fit and the Brownian Bridge
I.2 Testing Goodness of Fit to Parametric Hypotheses
I.3 Regular Parameters.Minimum Distance Estimates
I.4 Permutation Tests
I.5 Estimation of Irregular Parameters
1.6 Stein and Empirical Bayes Estimation
I.7 Model Selection
I.8 Problems and Complements
I.9 Notes
7 TOOLS FOR ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS
7.1 Weak Convergence in Function Spaces
7.1.1 Stochastic Processes and Weak Convergence
7.1.2 Maximal Inequalities
7.1.3 Empirical Processes on Function Spaces
7.2 The Delta Method in Infinite Dimensional Space
7.2.1 Influence Functions.The Gateaux and Frechet Derivatives
7.2.2 The Quantile Process
17.3 Further Expansions
7.3.1 The von Mises Expansion
7.3.2 The Hoeffding and Analysis of Variance Expansions
7.4 Problems and Complements
7.5 Notes
8 BUSTRIBUTION-FREE,UNBIASED,AND EOUIVARIANT PROCEDURES
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Similarity and Completenes
8.2.1 Testing
8.2.2 Testing Optimality Theory
8.2.3 Estimation
8.3 Invariance, Equivariance,and Minimax Procedures
8.3.1 Group Models
8.3.2 Group Models and Decision Theory
8.3.3 Characterizing Invariant Tests
8.3.4 Characterizing Equivariant Estimates
8.3.5 Minimaxity for Tests:Application to Group Models
8.3.6 Minimax Estimation,Admissibility,and Steinian Shrinkage
8.4 Problems and Complements
8.5 Notes
9 INFERENCE IN SEMIPARAMETRIC MODELS
9.1 Estimation in Semiparametric Models
9.1.1 Selected Examples
9.1.2 Regularization.Modified Maximum Likelihood
9.1.3 Other Modified and Approximate Likelihoods
9.1.4 Sieves and Regularization
9.2 Asymptotics.Consistency and Asymptotic Normality
9.2.1 A General Consistency Criterion
9.2.2 Asymptotics for Selected Models
9.3 Efficiency in Semiparametric Models