Higher Order Tangent Spaces and Influence Functions

Abstract

We review higher order tangent spaces and influence functions and their use to construct minimax efficient estimators for parameters in high-dimensional semiparametric models.

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-STS478 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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• Higher order influence functions and minimax estimation of nonlinear functionals

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