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Partly of an expository nature this note brings out the fact that an estimator, though asymptotically much less efficient (in the classical sense) than another, may yet have much greater probability concentration (as defined in this article) than the latter.
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Basu, D. (2011). The Concept of Asymptotic Efficiency. In: DasGupta, A. (eds) Selected Works of Debabrata Basu. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5825-9_15
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