Weak convergence and empirical processes : with applications to statistics
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Weak convergence and empirical processes : with applications to statistics
（Springer series in statistics）
Springer, c2023
2nd ed
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Previous ed.: 1996
Includes bibliographical references (p. 637-664) and indexes
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Description
This book provides an account of weak convergence theory, empirical processes, and their application to a wide variety of problems in statistics. The first part of the book presents a thorough treatment of stochastic convergence in its various forms. Part 2 brings together the theory of empirical processes in a form accessible to statisticians and probabilists. In Part 3, the authors cover a range of applications in statistics including rates of convergence of estimators; limit theorems for M and Z estimators; the bootstrap; the functional delta-method and semiparametric estimation. Most of the chapters conclude with "problems and complements." Some of these are exercises to help the reader's understanding of the material, whereas others are intended to supplement the text.
This second edition includes many of the new developments in the field since publication of the first edition in 1996: Glivenko-Cantelli preservation theorems; new bounds on expectations of suprema of empirical processes; new bounds on covering numbers for various function classes; generic chaining; definitive versions of concentration bounds; and new applications in statistics including penalized M-estimation, the lasso, classification, and support vector machines. The approximately 200 additional pages also round out classical subjects, including chapters on weak convergence in Skorokhod space, on stable convergence, and on processes based on pseudo-observations.
Table of Contents
Preface (vii)Reading Guide (ix)
Part I: Stochastic Convergence 1.1 Introduction: (1-6) 1.2 Outer Integrals and Measurable Majorants: (7-16) 1.3 Weak Convergence: (17 - 30) 1.4 Product Spaces: (31-35) 1.5 Spaces of Bounded Functions: (36 - 44) 1.6 Spaces of Locally Bounded Functions: (45 - 46) 1.7 The Ball Sigma-Field and Measurability of Suprema: (47 - 50) 1.8 Hilbert Spaces: (51 - 53) 1.9 Convergence: Almost surely and in probability: (54 - 58) 1.10 Convergence: Weak, Almost Uniform, and in Probabil- ity: (59 - 68) 1.11 Re_nements: (69 - 72) 1.12 Uniformity and Metrization: (73 - 76) 1.13 Skorokhod Space (new): (77 - 106) 1.14 Notes: (107 - 111)
Part 2: Empirical Processes: (113 - 370) 2.1 Introduction: (114 - 129) 2.2 Maximal Inequalities and Covering Numbers: (130 - 151) 2.3 Symmetrization and Measurability: (152 - 167) 2.4 Glivenko-Cantelli Theorems: (168 - 174) 2.5 Donsker Theorems: (175 - 181) 2.6 Uniform Entropy Numbers: (182 - 206) 2.7 Entropies of Function Classes (new title): (207 - 238) 2.8 Uniformity in the Underlying Distribution: (239 - 248) 2.9 Multiplier Central Limit Theorems: (249 - 262) 2.10 Permanence of the Glivenko-Cantelli and Donsker Prop- erties: (263 - 279) 2.11 The Central Limit Theorem for Processes: (280 - 299) 2.12 Partial Sum Processes: (300 - 306) 2.13 Other Donsker Classes: (307 - 312) 2.14 Maximal Inequalities and Tail Bounds: (313 - 348) 2.15 Concentration (new): (349 - 362) 2.16 Notes: (363 - 370)
Part 3: Statistical Applications: (371 - 558) 3.1 Introduction: (372 - 377) 3.2 M-Estimators: (378 - 403) 3.3 Z-Estimators: (404 - 415) 3.4 Rates of Convergence: (416 - 456) 3.5 Model Selection (new): (457 - 467) 3.6 Random Sample Size, Poissonization, and Kac Processes: (468 - 473) 3.7 Bootstrap: (474 - 488) 3.8 Two-Sample Problem: (489 - 495) 3.9 Independence Empirical Processes: (496 - 500) 3.10 Delta Method: (501 - 532)) 3.11 Contiguity: (533 - 543) 3.12 Convolution and Minimax Theorems: (544 - 554) 3.13 Random Empirical Processes: (555 - 572) 3.14 Notes: (573 - 579)
Appendix: (581 - 623) A.1 Inequalities: (582 - 589) A.2 Gaussian Processes: (590 - 605) A.3 Rademacher Processes: (606 - 607) A.4 Isoperimetric Inequalities for Product Measures: (608 - 612)) A.5 Some Limit Theorems: (613 - 615) A.6 More Inequalities: (616 - 621) Notes: (622 - 623)
References (637) Author Index (665)Subject Index (669)List of Symbols (676)
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