This book represents thirty-eight extensive and carefully edited chapters
written by prominent researchers, providing an up-to-date survey of new
asymptotic methods in science and technology. The chapters contain broad
coverage of the latest developments and innovative techniques in a wide range of
theoretical and numerical issues in the field of asymptotic methods in
probability and mathematical statistics. The book is organized into ten thematic
parts: probability distributions; characterizations of distributions;
probabilities and measures in high dimensional structures; weak and stron limit
theorems; large deviation probabilities; empirical processes; order statistics
and records; estimation of parameters and hypotheses testing; random walks, and
applications to finance. Written in an accessible style, this