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Past exam of the statistics course of the University of Oxford 2017 1 a ii Solution by
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For , the central limit theorem givesIf is differentiable at , the delta method applies to the first-order expansionwhere the remainder notation means that its product with tends to zero in probability. HenceThe useful nondegenerate normal approximation requires . When , the first-order limit is zero and a higher-order expansion may be needed.
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