TY - BOOK AU - Vaart, A. W. Van Der TI - Asymptotic statistics SN - 9780521784504 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press N2 - Here is a practical and mathematically rigorous introduction to the field of asymptotic statistics. In addition to most of the standard topics of an asymptotics course--likelihood inference, M-estimation, the theory of asymptotic efficiency, U-statistics, and rank procedures--the book also presents recent research topics such as semiparametric models, the bootstrap, and empirical processes and their applications. ER -