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November 2014 Higher Order Tangent Spaces and Influence Functions
Aad van der Vaart
Statist. Sci. 29(4): 679-686 (November 2014). DOI: 10.1214/14-STS478

Abstract

We review higher order tangent spaces and influence functions and their use to construct minimax efficient estimators for parameters in high-dimensional semiparametric models.

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Aad van der Vaart. "Higher Order Tangent Spaces and Influence Functions." Statist. Sci. 29 (4) 679 - 686, November 2014. https://doi.org/10.1214/14-STS478

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Published: November 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 15 January 2015

zbMATH: 1331.62111
MathSciNet: MR3300365
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/14-STS478

Keywords: minimax rate of convergence , Semiparametric model , U-statistic

Rights: Copyright © 2014 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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