Pollard lectures in Paris
March-May 2001

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• Notes for lectures
  1. Heuristics (original version);  corrected version, changed after the lecture
  2. Contiguity ;   extra section on Bahadur's rescue of superefficiency (12 april)
  3. Hellinger differentiability (DQM)
  4. Randomization (incomplete)
  5. Le Cam distance (incomplete)
  6. (I wonder what happened to 6?)
  7. Asymptotic minimax
  8. (Convolution theorem--not yet edited)
  9. Multinomial;   added 9 May: more about comparison of multinormal and white noise models (the whole chapter so far)
  10. Quantile coupling

  11. Note on a minimax theorem ;   revision (12 april)

Background material

• Vita of Lucien Le Cam

• Preprint: Some thoughts on Le Cam's statistical decision theory, 2000may-1.pdf

• Preprint: (with Andrew Carter) Tusnady's lemma revisited, 2000jul1.pdf

• Other papers written by Andrew Carter

• Parts of the lectures will be drawn from early drafts of chapters for the Asymptopia book:   old table of contents   and   old chapters.