Empirical Processes

These notes grew from lectures the author gave at the University of Iowa in July of 1988, as part of the NSF-CBMS Regional Conference Series. The aim has been to introduce just enough technique to handle typical nontrivial asymptotic problems in statistics and econometrics. The four substantial examples that represent the applications part of the lectures do not exhaust the possible uses for the theory; they cleanly illustrate specific aspects of the theory.