| List of Examples | p. ix |
| List of Figures | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Introduction | |
| Preliminaries | p. 1 |
| Problems and scope | p. 2 |
| Examples | p. 5 |
| Asymptotic Inference for (Finite-Dimensional) Parametric Models | |
| Regular parametric models in the I.I.D. case | p. 11 |
| Regular estimates of Euclidean parameters | p. 17 |
| The information bound and the Hajek-Le Cam convolution and asymptotic minimax theorems | p. 23 |
| Nuisance parameters, adaptation, and some geometry | p. 27 |
| Construction of [square root]n-consistent and efficient estimates | p. 40 |
| Information Bounds for Euclidean Parameters in Infinite-Dimensional Models | |
| Introduction and overview | p. 46 |
| Tangent spaces | p. 48 |
| Information bounds via derivatives of functions: the nonparametric approach | p. 57 |
| Information bound calculations via scores: the semiparametric approach | p. 70 |
| Euclidean Parameters: Further Examples | |
| Introduction: models | p. 83 |
| Semiparametric group models | p. 88 |
| Regression models | p. 103 |
| Biased sampling models | p. 113 |
| Mixture models | p. 125 |
| Missing data models | p. 143 |
| Transformation models | p. 153 |
| Information Bounds for Infinite-Dimensional Parameters | |
| Introduction | p. 176 |
| Convolution theorems for regular estimates of infinite-dimensional parameters | p. 177 |
| Examples | p. 191 |
| Differentiability of functions | p. 201 |
| The "calculus" of efficient score and influence operators | p. 210 |
| Infinite-Dimensional Parameters: Further Examples | |
| Introduction | p. 221 |
| Constrained families | p. 221 |
| Group models | p. 229 |
| Biased sampling models | p. 240 |
| Mixture models and models with monotonicity constraints | p. 261 |
| Missing data and censoring | p. 271 |
| Transformation models | p. 292 |
| Construction of Estimates | |
| Introduction | p. 298 |
| M-estimates for Euclidean parameters | p. 301 |
| Generalized M-estimates for Euclidean parameters | p. 309 |
| GMC- and GM-estimates corresponding to convex D | p. 325 |
| Estimation of P and other infinite-dimensional parameters: methods, consistency, and rates of convergence | p. 335 |
| Estimation of infinite-dimensional parameters: asymptotics and applications | p. 356 |
| Joint estimation of Euclidean and infinite-dimensional parameters | p. 382 |
| Efficient estimation | p. 391 |
| Appendix | |
| Vector spaces; linear functionals and dual spaces | p. 414 |
| Orthogonality and projection formulas | p. 425 |
| Conditional expectation formulas | p. 430 |
| Projection on sumspaces and ACE | p. 436 |
| Derivatives | p. 453 |
| Metrics on classes of probability measures and probability inequalities | p. 464 |
| Limit theorems, weak convergence, and tightness | p. 468 |
| Hoffmann-Jorgensen-Dudley weak convergence theory | p. 475 |
| Contiguity | p. 498 |
| The master theorem for asymptotic generalized M-estimates | p. 514 |
| List of Symbols | p. 521 |
| Bibliography | p. 527 |
| Author Index | p. 549 |
| Subject Index | p. 553 |
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