Yakov Nikitin graduated from the University of St.Petersburg in 1968. He is currently the Head of Department of Probability and Statistics in this University. He is the author of more than 120 publications and a monograph entitled Asymptotic Efficiency of Nonparametric Tests (Cambridge, 1995). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2002).
Introduction
1. Asymptotic efficiency of statistical tests and mathematical means for its computation
2. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric goodness-of-fit tests
3. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric homogeneity tests
4. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric symmetry tests
5. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric independence tests
6. Local asymptotic optimality of nonparametric tests and the characterisation of distributions.
