Equivalence of the Higher-order Asymptotic Efficiency of k-step and Extremum Statistics

Donald W. K. Andrews ()

No 1269, Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers from Cowles Foundation, Yale University

Abstract: It is well known that a one-step scoring estimator that starts from any N^{1/2}-consistent estimator has the same first-order asymptotic efficiency as the maximum likelihood estimator. This paper extends this result to k-step estimators and test statistics for k >= 1, higher-order asymptotic efficiency, and general extremum estimators and test statistics. The paper shows that a k-step estimator has the same higher-order asymptotic efficiency, to any given order, as the extremum estimator towards which it is stepping, provided (i) k is sufficiently large, (ii) some smoothness and moment conditions hold, and (iii) a condition on the initial estimator holds. For example, for the Newton-Raphson k-step estimator, we obtain asymptotic equivalence to integer order s provided 2^{k} >= s + 1. Thus, for k = 1, 2, and 3, one obtains asymptotic equivalence to first, third, and seventh orders respectively. This means that the maximum differences between the probabilities that the (N^{1/2}-normalized) k-step and extremum estimators lie in any convex set are o(1), o(N^{-3/2}), and o(N^{-3}) respectively.

Keywords: Asymptotics; Edgeworth expansion; extremum estimator; Gauss-Newton; higher-order efficiency; Newton-Raphson.; Inventory theory; optimal ordering policies; (S; s) policies; K-concavity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-07
Note: CFP 1044.
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Published in Econometric Theory (2002), 18: 1040-1085

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