Local Asymptotic Analysis: A General Quantitative Tool

Music City Center 

Arguably Lucien Le Cam's most important contributions were in asymptotic analysis in decision theory. One of the earliest of these was local asymptotic normality which grew out of a 1956 3rd Berkeley Symposium paper which itself was in part an explanation and extension of a 1943 TAMS paper of A. Wald. I will discuss these connections, give some proofs and further connections to some modern results including semiparametric approaches in causality theory.