Expansions for the distribution of M-estimates with applications to the Multi-Tone problem
We give a stochastic expansion for estimates that minimise the arithmetic mean of (typically independent) random functions of a known parameterθ. Examples include least squares estimates, maximum likelihood estimates and more generally M-estimates. This is used to obtain leading cumulant coefficients of needed for the Edgeworth expansions for the distribution and densityn1/2θ0) to magnitude n−3/2 (or to n−2 for the symmetric case), where θ0 is the true parameter value and n is typically the...