Background
Klaassen, Chris Antonius Johannes was born on February 3, 1949 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Son of Chris and Dien H. Klaassen.
(Wherever statistics is applied, the need to combine inter...)
Wherever statistics is applied, the need to combine interpretable structure with a minimum of assumptions about random fluctuations leads to the use of semiparametric models. In theories of economic choice, for instance, decision making is modeled in part by parametric relations suggested by economic theory and in part by individual fluctuations about which little is known or assumed. Another well-known example, the proportional hazards model of survival analysis, permits an arbitrary baseline hazard rate for a human lifetime but postulates that such variables as medical treatment, age and gender act on the baseline only through parametric scaling factors. This book unifies the theory of estimation in such examples. The authors show how the classical information bounds developed for parametric models extend naturally to nonparametric and semiparametric models. They then apply these techniques in as broad a range of models as possible, illustrating the ease with which heuristic calculations of "optimal behaviour" can be carried out.
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This book deals with estimation in situations in which there is believed to be enough information to model parametrically some, but not all of the features of a data set. Such models have arisen in a wide context in recent years, and involve new nonlinear estimation procedures. Statistical models of this type are directly applicable to fields such as economics, epidemiology, and astronomy.
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Klaassen, Chris Antonius Johannes was born on February 3, 1949 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Son of Chris and Dien H. Klaassen.
Doctor of Philosophy, U. Leiden, 1980.
Research assistant, U. Leiden, The Netherlands, 1974-1977; associate professor, U. Leiden, The Netherlands, 1982-1989; research assistant, Mathematics Center, A'dam, The Netherlands, 1977-1981; professor, U. Amsterdam, since 1990. Guest professor of University Leuven, Belgium, 1988.
(Wherever statistics is applied, the need to combine inter...)
(This book deals with estimation in situations in which th...)
Fellow Institute Mathematics Statistics. Member International Statistical Institute, Dutch Mathematics Society, Dutch Statistical Society.
Married Angeli H. van den Heuvel, July12, 1974. Children: Paul C., Linda A., Angeli A.