When does third order efficiency imply fourth order efficiency

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Authors Shanti A. Venetiaan

Publication date 22 November 2013

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

Abstract: In this article third and fourth order efficiency are studied in the framework of translation equivariant location estimators. We assume $X_1,\mathrm{...},X_n$ i.i.d. $f(cdot-heta)$. By recognizing that equality in a special form of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality leads to a certain dependence of the cumulants of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for $heta$, it is shown that this MLE is fourth order efficient if the underlying distribution is Gumbel. Contrary to similar results which were previously published this result is not based on symmetry.

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