The statistical work of Lucien Le Cam

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 631-682

  Van der Vaart, Aad ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparison of experiments; Contiguity; Deficiency; LAN; Limit experiment; Metric entropy; Sufficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043142195     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1028674836     Document Type: Review

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