Higher order inference on a treatment effect under low regularity conditions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 821-828

  Li, Lingling ^a,b   Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric ^c   van der Vaart, Aad ^d   Robins, James M ^c  

^a HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Influence functions; Minimax; Nonparametric; Semiparametric; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955126371     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.030     Document Type: Article

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