Offers a unified treatment of first-order large-sample theory. This book discusses a broad range of applications including introductions to density estimation, the bootstrap, and the asymptotics of survey methodology. It is suitable for students at the Master's level in statistics and in applied fie[...]

This classic textbook, now available from Springer, summarizes developments in the field of hypotheses testing. Optimality considerations continue to provide the organizing principle. However, they are now tempered by a much stronger emphasis on the robustness properties of the resulting procedures.[...]