Complex sampling designs: uniform limit theorems and applications

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Abstract: In this paper, we develop a general approach to proving global and local uniform limit theorems for the Horvitz-Thompson empirical process arising from complex sampling designs. Global theorems such as Glivenko-Cantelli and Donsker theorems, and local theorems such as local asymptotic modulus and related ratio-type limit theorems are proved for both the Horvitz-Thompson empirical process, and its calibrated version. Limit theorems of other variants and their conditional versions are also established. Our approach reveals an interesting feature: the problem of deriving uniform limit theorems for the Horvitz-Thompson empirical process is essentially no harder than the problem of establishing the corresponding finite-dimensional limit theorems. These global and local uniform limit theorems are then applied to important statistical problems including (i) M-estimation (ii) Z-estimation (iii) frequentist theory of Bayes procedures, all with weighted likelihood, to illustrate their wide applicability.




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