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Nonlinear Functionals of Empirical Measures and the Bootstrap

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Probability in Banach Spaces 7

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This paper aims at extending the theory of differentiable statistical functionals in connection with empirical processes and the bootstrap.

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Dudley, R.M. (1990). Nonlinear Functionals of Empirical Measures and the Bootstrap. In: Eberlein, E., Kuelbs, J., Marcus, M.B. (eds) Probability in Banach Spaces 7. Progress in Probability, vol 21. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0559-0_5

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