Defining the curvature of a statistical problem (with applications to second order efficiency)

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176343282zbMath0321.62013OpenAlexW2000507951MaRDI QIDQ1223101

Efron, Bradley

Publication date: 1975

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176343282

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Point estimation (62F10) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Sufficiency and information (62B99)

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