TY - BOOK AU - Kolassa,John E. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Series Approximation Methods in Statistics T2 - Lecture Notes in Statistics, SN - 9780387322278 U1 - 519.5 23 PY - 2006/// CY - New York, NY PB - Springer New York KW - STATISTICS KW - MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS KW - STATISTICAL THEORY AND METHODS N1 - Asymptotics in General -- Characteristic Functions and the Berry-Esseen Theorem -- Edgeworth Series -- Saddlepoint Series for Densities -- Saddlepoint Series for Distribution Functions -- Multivariate Expansions -- Conditional Distribution Approximations -- Applications to Wald, Likelihood Ratio, and Maximum Likelihood Statistics -- Other Topics -- Computational Aids N2 - To follow UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32227-2 ER -