JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN STATISTICAL SOCIETY
Online ISSN : 1348-6365
Print ISSN : 1882-2754
ISSN-L : 1348-6365
THIRD-ORDER EFFICIENCY IMPLIES FOURTH-ORDER EFFICIENCY
Yutaka Kano
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1996 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 101-117

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Takeuchi [37], Takeuchi and Akahira [38] and Pfanzagl [27] among others proved that any first-order efficient estimators are second-order efficient. Many other authors e. g., Ghosh [15], have conjectured that any third-order efficient estimators are also fourth-order efficient. Based on the concentration probability of estimators about a true parameter, this paper gives a positive answer to the conjecture in a curved exponential family with multi-structural parameters. It is seen that choice of bias-correction factors is critical.

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