Semiparametric Efficient Empirical Higher Order Influence Function Estimators

Lin Liu, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Whitney K. Newey +1

Robins et al. (2008, 2017) applied the theory of higher order influence functions (HOIFs) to derive an estimator of the mean $\ddot{I}ˆ$ of an outcome Y in a missing data model with Y mis…