Working Paper

Maximal uniform convergence rates in parametric estimation problems

Authors

Walter Beckert, Daniel McFadden

Published Date

17 June 2005

Type

Working Paper (CWP06/05)

This paper considers parametric estimation problems with i.i.d. data. It focusseson rate-effciency, in the sense of maximal possible convergence rates of stochasticallybounded estimators, as an optimality criterion, largely unexplored in parametric estimation. Under mild conditions, the Hellinger metric, defined on the space of parametric probability measures, is shown to be an essentially universally applicable tool to determinemaximal possible convergence rates.


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