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Weak approximations of the empirical process when parameters are estimated

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Abstract

Strong approximation results and methodology are used to obtain in-probability representations of the empirical process when the parameters of the underlying distribution function are estimated. These representations are obtained under a null hypothesis and a sequence of alternatives converging to the null hypothesis. The fairly general conditions on the estimators are often satisfied by maximum likelihood estimators. The asymptotic distribution of the estimated empirical process depends, in general, on the true value of the unknown parameters. Some useful methods of overcoming this difficulty are discussed.

Keywords

  • Gaussian Process
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimator
  • Empirical Process
  • Fisher Information Matrix
  • Strong Approximation

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Research partially supported by a Canadian N.R.C. Grant.

Research supported by a Canadian N.R.C. Scholarship.

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Csörgő, M., Burke, M.D. (1976). Weak approximations of the empirical process when parameters are estimated. In: Gaenssler, P., Révész, P. (eds) Empirical Distributions and Processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 566. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0096875

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