Festschrift for Lucien Le Cam

1. Front Matter

   Pages N3-xxxv

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2. Counting Processes and Dynamic Modelling

   • Odd O. Aalen

   Pages 1-12

3. Multivariate Symmetry Models

   • R. J. Beran, P. W. Millar

   Pages 13-42

4. Local Asymptotic Normality of Ranks and Covariates in Transformation Models

   • P. J. Bickel, Y. Ritov

   Pages 43-54

5. From Model Selection to Adaptive Estimation

   • Lucien Birgé, Pascal Massart

   Pages 55-87

6. Large Deviations for Martingales

   • D. Blackwell

   Pages 89-91

7. An Application of Statistics to Meteorology: Estimation of Motion

   • David R. Brillinger

   Pages 93-105

8. At the Interface of Statistics and Medicine: Conflicting Paradigms

   • Vera S. Byers, Kenneth Gorelick

   Pages 107-134

9. Points Singuliers des Modèles Statistiques

   • D. Dacunha-Castelle

   Pages 135-141

10. Exponential Tightness and Projective Systems in Large Deviation Theory

    • A. de Acosta

    Pages 143-156

11. Consistency of Bayes Estimates for Nonparametric Regression: A Review

    • P. Diaconis, D. A. Freedman

    Pages 157-165

12. Renormalizing Experiments for Nonlinear Functionals

    • David L. Donoho

    Pages 167-181

13. Universal Near Minimaxity of Wavelet Shrinkage

    • D. L. Donoho, I. M. Johnstone, G. Kerkyacharian, D. Picard

    Pages 183-218

14. Empirical Processes and p-variation

    • R. M. Dudley

    Pages 219-233

15. A Poisson Fishing Model

    • Thomas S. Ferguson

    Pages 235-244

16. Lower Bounds for Function Estimation

    • Catherine Huber

    Pages 245-258

17. Some Estimation Problems in Infinite Dimensional Gaussian White Noise

    • I. Ibragimov, R. Khasminskii

    Pages 259-274

18. On Asymptotic Inference in AR and Cointegrated Models With Unit Roots and Heavy Tailed Errors

    • P. Jeganathan

    Pages 275-296

19. Le Cam at Berkeley

    • E. L. Lehmann

    Pages 297-304

20. Another Look at Differentiability in Quadratic Mean

    • David Pollard

    Pages 305-314

The articles in this volume were contributed by the friends of Lucien Le Cam on the occasion of his 70th birthday in November 1994. We wish him a belated happy birthday. In addition to all the usual excuses for our tardiness in the preparation of the volume, we must point to the miracles of modern computing . .Az3 the old proverb almost put it: there's many a slip 'twixt \cup and \baselineskip. We beg forgiveness of any of our infinitely patient contributors who find that the final product does not quite match with the galley proofs. Our task was also made harder by the sad death of our friend and fellow editor, Erik Torgersen. We greatly appreciate the editorial help of David Donoho with one of the more troublesome contributions. In addition to the 29 contributed articles, we have included a short vita, a list of publications, and a list of Lucien's Ph.D. students. We are also pleased that Lucien allowed us to include a private letter, written to Grace Yang, in response to a query about the extent of his formal mathematical training. The letter gives some insights into what made Lucien one of the leading mathematical statisticians of the century.

• Likelihood
• Martingale
• Time series
• counting process
• mixing
• point process
• statistics

• Department of Statistics, Yale University, New Haven, USA

  David Pollard

• Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo 3, Norway

  Erik Torgersen

• Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  Grace L. Yang

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