This paper develops an asymptotic theory for R-estimation based on a square-integrable, not necessarily bounded, score function in the pth order stationary autoregressive model. Asymptotic uniform linearity of a class of linear rank statistics is established and the asymptotic normality of the...

Generalized confidence intervals provide confidence intervals for complicated parametric functions in many common practical problems. They do not have exact frequentist coverage in general, but often provide coverage close to the nominal value and have the correct asymptotic coverage. However,...

Consider the Kaplan-Meier estimate of the distribution function for right randomly censored data. We show that a U-statistic defined via this estimate is asymptotically normal. Under a condition of degeneracy, different from the degeneracy condition in uncensored models, it has an asymptotic...