<p>The goal of this book is to introduce statisticians, and other researchers with a background in mathematical statistics, to empirical processes and semiparametric inference. These powerful research techniques are surprisingly useful for studying large sample properties of statistical estimates from realistically complex models as well as for developing new and improved approaches to statistical inference.<br/><br/>The level of the book is more introductory than the seminal work of van der Vaart and Wellner (1996). In fact, another purpose of this work is to help readers prepare for the mathematically advanced van der Vaart and Wellner text, as well as for the semiparametric inference work of Bickel, Klaassen, Ritov and Wellner (1997).<br/></p><br/>

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