This book is an encyclopedic treatment of classic as well as contemporary large sample theory, dealing with both statistical problems and probabilistic issues and tools. It is written in an extremely lucid style, with an emphasis on the conceptual discussion of the importance of a problem and the impact and relevance of the theorems. The book has 34 chapters over a wide range of topics, nearly 600 exercises for practice and instruction, and another 300 worked out examples. It also includes a large compendium of 300 useful inequalities on probability, linear algebra, and analysis that are collected together from numerous sources, as an invaluable reference for researchers in statistics, probability, and mathematics.
It can be used as a graduate text, as a versatile research reference, as a source for independent reading on a wide assembly of topics, and as a window to learning the latest developments in contemporary topics. The book is unique in its detailed coverage of fundamental topics such as central limit theorems in numerous setups, likelihood based methods, goodness of fit, higher order asymptotics, as well as of the most modern topics such as the bootstrap, dependent data, Bayesian asymptotics, nonparametric density estimation, mixture models, and multiple testing and false discovery. It provides extensive bibliographic references on all topics that include very recent publications. 
                 
            
            
            
            
                
                    1  Basic Convergence Concepts and Theorems  1 
2  Metrics, Information Theory, Convergence, and Poisson Approximations  19 
3  More General Weak and Strong Laws and the Delta Theorem  35 
4  Transformations  49 
5  More General Central Limit Theorems  63 
6  Moment Convergence and Uniform Integrability  83 
7  Sample Percentiles and Order Statistics  91 
8  Sample Extremes  101 
9  Central Limit Theorems for Dependent Sequences  119 
10  Central Limit Theorem for Markov Chains  131 
11  Accuracy of Central Limit Theorems  141 
12  Invariance Principles  151 
13  Edgeworth Expansions and Cumulants  185 
14  Saddlepoint Approximations  203 
15  U-statistics  225 
16  Maximum Likelihood Estimates  235 
17  M Estimates  259 
18  The Trimmed Mean  271 
19  Multivariate Location Parameter and Multivariate Medians  279 
20  Bayes Procedures and Posterior Distributions  289 
21  Testing Problems  323 
22  Asymptotic Efficiency in Testing  347 
23  Some General Large-Deviation Results  365 
24  Classical Nonparametrics  377 
25  Two-Sample Problems  401 
26  Goodness of Fit