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Monday, January 16, 2012

Different Types of "Asymptotics"

When econometricians talk about the "asymptotic" properties of their estimators or tests, they're usually referring to their properties when the sample size becomes infinitely large. However, there are other types of "asymptotics" that are also interesting and important. It's worth being aware of this, and of the way they arise in econometric analysis.