U-Statistics, Mm-Estimators and Resampling

Download or read book U-Statistics, Mm-Estimators and Resampling written by Arup Bose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory text on a broad class of statistical estimators that are minimizers of convex functions. It covers the basics of U-statistics and Mm-estimators and develops their asymptotic properties. It also provides an elementary introduction to resampling, particularly in the context of these estimators. The last chapter is on practical implementation of the methods presented in other chapters, using the free software R.