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Let E n be a sequence of experiments weakly converging to a limit experiment E. One of the basic objectives of asymptotic decision theory is to derive asymptotically "best" decisions in E n from optimal decisions in the limit experiment E. A central statement in this context is the Hajek-LeCam bound which represents a lower bound for the maximum risk of a sequence of decisions. It is given a si...

[3] M. Alanyali and B. Hajek. Analysis of simple algorithms for dynamic load balancing. [6] V. Anantharam. On fast simulation of the time to saturation of slotted ALOHA.

As detailed by Hajek, Taylor, and McRobbie [1], smokers report that stress relief is a fundamental reason for continued use of tobacco. In this study, stress levels were measured a year apart in order to investigate how this construct changed among smokers who successfully quit compared to those who relapsed. This is a particularly important area to investigate as many smokers believe and repor...

This paper explores scheduling multiclass periodic tra c with deadlines in a time slotted system through an N N switch Di erent tra c streams may have di erent periods and di erent rates Each packet must depart before the next packet in its stream arrives An algorithm is given to schedule all tra c if each period evenly divides all longer pe riods and if the utilization at each link is no large...

Cramer-Rao type integral inequalities where developed for loss functions w(x) which are bounded below by functions of the type g(x) = c|x|l, l > 1. As applications, we obtain lower bounds of Hajek-LeCam type for locally asymptotic minimax error for such loss functions.

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In this paper we give an example which shows that the convolution theorem (Boll, [1], Hajek, [2]) cannot be extended to infinite-dimensional shift experiments. This answers a question posed by van der Vaart, [8], and which has been considered also by LeCam, [4].