Joint Statistical Papers of Akahira and Takeuchi

Masafumi Akahira and Kei Takeuchi have collaborated in research on mathematical statistics for nearly thirty years and have published many articles and papers. This volume is a collection of their papers, some published in well-known and others in lesser-known journals. The papers cover various fields, but the main subject is the theory of estimation -- asymptotic, non-regular, sequential. etc. All the papers are theoretical in nature, but have implications for applied problems. Researchers and graduate students in statistical sciences (both theory and application).