1. Korteweg–de Vries Institute for Mathematics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018, TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2. EURANDOM, P.O. Box 513, 5600, MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Abstract:
There are consistently estimable parameters of interest whose semiparametric Fisher information vanishes at some points of the model in question. Here we investigate how bad this is for estimation.