Empirical processes: theory and applications

David Pollard0940600161, 9780940600164

Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
Preface……Page 6
1 Introduction……Page 9
2 Symmetrization and Conditioning……Page 14
3 Chaining……Page 17
4 Packing and Covering in Euclidean Spaces……Page 22
5 Stability……Page 29
6 Convex Hulls……Page 37
7 Maximal Inequalities……Page 43
8 Uniform Laws of Large Numbers……Page 47
9 Convergence in Distribution and Almost Sure Representation……Page 51
10 Functional Central Limit Theorems……Page 58
11 Least Absolute Deviations Estimators for Censored Regression……Page 65
12 Random Convex Sets……Page 73
13 Estimation from Censored Data……Page 78
14 Biased Sampling……Page 83
References……Page 92