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A statistic can frequently be considered as a functional on a space of distribution functions. Often such a statistical functional possesses differentiability properties which provide information about its asymptotic behavior. These basic ideas were introduced by R. von Mises (1947), who developed a theory for the analysis of the asymptotic distribution of statistical functionals, using a form of Taylor expansion involving the derivatives of the functionals.
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Fernholz, L.T. (1983). Introduction. In: von Mises Calculus For Statistical Functionals. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 19. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5604-5_1
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