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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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But<br />

−1<br />

X<br />

=1<br />

155<br />

( ≥ ) = −1 (# of times ≤ )<br />

= ˆ ()<br />

so<br />

√ = √ ∙ ³<br />

ˆ () − ()´2 − (0 () − ()) 2<br />

−2( 0 () − ()) ³ ˆ () − 0 ()´i<br />

= √ <br />

∙ ³<br />

ˆ () − 0 ()´2¸<br />

≤<br />

½<br />

sup<br />

<br />

√ 2<br />

¯ √ <br />

¯¯¯ ˆ () − 0 () ¯¾<br />

<br />

It can be shown that sup √ ¯ ˆ () − 0 () ¯ = (1);<br />

<strong>in</strong> fact this sup has a limit<strong>in</strong>g distribution: Kolmogorov<br />

showed that<br />

√ <br />

0<br />

µsup <br />

¯¯¯ ˆ () − 0 () ¯ ≤ <br />

→ 1 − 2<br />

<br />

∞X<br />

=1<br />

¯<br />

(−1) −1 −22 2 ;<br />

thus √ = ( −12 ) and (17.3) follows.<br />

¯<br />

¯

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