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Expansions and asymptotics for statistics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Small, Christopher G.
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Chapman and Hall/CRC, ©2010.
Series:Monographs on statistics and applied probability (Series) ; 115.
Subjects:
Asymptotic distribution (Probability theory)
Asymptotic expansions.
Distribution asymptotique (Théorie des probabilités)
Développements asymptotiques.
Asymptotic expansions
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. General series methods
  • 3. Padâe approximants and continued fractions
  • 4. The delta method and its extensions
  • 5. Optimality and likelihood asymptotics
  • 6. The Laplace approximation and series
  • 7. The saddle-point method
  • 8. Summation of series
  • 9. Glossary of symbols
  • 10. Useful limits, series and products.