Addresses

Time management at the Universiteit van Amsterdam

Courses

Research fields

Zie  IBIS UvA BV

Research projects

Lecture series at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics

• General Mathematics Colloquium (Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium)
• Colloquium Probability Theory, Statistics and Financial Mathematics

Special events

• The age of regular variation: tales on tails (Symposium at the occasion of Guus Balkema's 65th birthday)
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• Papers

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1979). Nonuniformity of the convergence of
location estimators. {\sl Proceedings of the Second Prague Symposium on
Asymptotic Statistics 21--25 August 1978}. P. Mandl, M. Hu{$\breve{\rm
s}$}kov\'a (eds.). North-Holland, Amsterdam, 251--258.

Bickel, P.J. and C.A.J. Klaassen (1986). Empirical Bayes
estimation in functional and structural models, and uniformly adaptive
estimation of location. {\sl Advances in Applied Mathematics} {\bf 7},
55--69.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1987). Consistent estimation of the
influence function of locally asymptotically linear estimators. {\sl The
Annals of Statistics} {\bf 15}, 1548--1562.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1989). Efficient estimation in the Cox model for
survival data. {\sl Proceedings of the Fourth Prague Symposium on
Asymptotic Statistics 29 August--2 September 1988}. P. Mandl, M.
Hu{$\breve {\rm s}$}kov\'a (eds.). Charles University, Prague, 313--319.

Drost, F.C., C.A.J. Klaassen, and B.J.M. Werker (1994).
Adaptiveness in time series models. {\sl Asymptotic Statistics}. P. Mandl,
M. Hu{$\breve {\rm s}$}kov\'a (eds.). Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg,
203--211.

Klaassen, C.A.J. and J.A. Wellner (1997). Efficient estimation
in the bivariate normal copula model: normal margins are least favorable.
{\sl Bernoulli} {\bf 3}, 55--77.

Drost, F.C., C.A.J. Klaassen, and B.J.M. Werker (1997). Adaptive
estimation in time-series models. {\sl The Annals of Statistics} {\bf 25},
786--817.

Drost, F.C. and C.A.J. Klaassen (1997). Efficient estimation in
semiparametric GARCH models. {\sl Journal of Econometrics} {\bf 81},
193--221.

Es, A.J. van, C.A.J. Klaassen, and C. Oudshoorn (2000).
Survival analysis under cross sectional sampling: length bias and
multiplicative censoring. {\sl Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference} {\bf 91}, 295--312.

Klaassen, C.A.J., Lee, E.-J., and Ruymgaart, F.H. (2001). On efficiency of
indirect estimation of nonparametric regression functions, {\sl Algebraic
Methods in Statistics and Probability}, Contemporary Mathematics {\bf
287}, AMS, Viana, M.A.G. and Richards, D.St.P. (eds.), 173--184.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (2001). Discussion to ``Inference for
Semiparametric Models: Some Current Frontier'' by Peter J. Bickel and
Jaimyoung Kwon, {\sl Statistica Sinica} {\bf 11}, 906--909.
 

Asymptotic Estimation Theory

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1989). The asymptotic spread of estimators.
{\sl Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference} {\bf 23}, 267--285.

Klaassen, C.A.J. and S.A. Venetiaan (1994). Spread inequality
and efficiency of first and second order. {\sl Asymptotic Statistics}. P.
Mandl, M. Hu{$\breve {\rm s}$}kov\'a (eds.). Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg,
203--211.

Klaassen, C.A.J. and R.M. Mnatsakanov (2000).
Consistent estimation of the structural distribution function.
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics  27, 733--746.

Es, A.J. van, C.A.J. Klaassen, and R.M. Mnatsakanov (2002).
Estimating the structural distribution function of cell probabilities.
Austrian Journal of Statistics  32, 85--98.  pdf file
 

Confidence Intervals

Boon, P.C., H. Hendriks, C.A.J. Klaassen, and R. Muijlwijk (1999).
To t or not to t? {\sl Proceedings of the Thirty-third European Study Group
with Industry}, CWI Syllabus {\bf 46}, CWI, Amsterdam, 1--10.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (2002).
Asymptotically most accurate confidence intervals in the semiparametric
symmetric location model. Accepted for {\sl Mathematical Statistics and
Applications: Festschrift for Constance van Eeden}, M. Moore et al. (eds.)
 

Finite Sample Estimation Theory

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1984). Location estimators and spread. {\sl The
Annals of Statistics} {\bf 12}, 311--321.

Klaassen, C.A.J. and W.R. van Zwet (1985). On estimating a
parameter and its score function. {\sl Proceedings of the Berkeley
Conference in Honor of Jerzy Neyman and Jack Kiefer}, {\sl Vol.II}. L.M.
Le Cam and R.A. Olshen (eds.). Wadsworth, Belmont, 827--839.

Klaassen, C.A.J., A.W. van der Vaart, and W.R. van Zwet (1988).
On estimating a parameter and its score function, II. {\sl Statistical
Decision Theory and Related Topics IV, Volume 2}. S.S. Gupta and J.O.
Berger (eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York, 281--288.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1989). Estimators and spread. {\sl The Annals of
Statistics} {\bf 17}, 859--867.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1995). Finite sample optimality of extremes
and mid-range. {\sl Kybernetika} {\bf 31}, 297--302.

Heuvel, E.R. van den and C.A.J. Klaassen (1997). Spread,
estimators and nuisance parameters. {\sl Bernoulli} {\bf 3}, 323--328.

Heuvel, E.R. van den and C.A.J. Klaassen (1999).
Bayes Convolution. {\sl International Statistical Review} {\bf 67},
287--299.
 
 

Sampling Theory

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1990). Random and fixed replacement
sampling plans. {\sl Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference} {\bf
25}, 153--161.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1994). Dixie cups: sampling with replacement
from a finite population. {\sl Journal of Applied Probability} {\bf 31},
940--948.
 

Acceptance Sampling

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1996). A bonus-malus system in statistical
sampling for testing jewelry on fineness. {\sl Precious Metal Sampling and
Analysis, San Antonio 1996}. P. Blumberg, R.C. Kaltenbach (eds.),
International Precious Metals Institute, Allentown PA, 3--9.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (2001).
Credit in acceptance sampling on attributes. {\sl Technometrics} {\bf 43},
212--222.

Baillie, D. and C.A.J. Klaassen (2001),
Credit-based accept-zero sampling schemes for the control of outgoing
quality, {\em Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control} {\bf
6}, Physica Verlag, Springer, New York, 25--35. See: advertisement
 

Empirical Processes

Klaassen, C.A.J. and J.A. Wellner (1992). Kac empirical processes
and the bootstrap. {\sl Probability in Banach Spaces, 8: Proceedings of
the Eighth International Conference}. R.M. Dudley, M.G. Hahn and J.
Kuelbs(eds.). Birkha\"user, Boston, 411--429.
 

Edgeworth Expansions and Berry-Esseen Theorems

Does, R.J.M.M. and C.A.J. Klaassen (1984). Second order
asymptotics for statistics based on uniform spacings. {\sl Proceedings of
the Third Prague Symposium on Asymptotic Statistics 29 August--2 September
1983}. P. Mandl, M. Hu{$\breve {\rm s}$}kov\'a (eds.). Elsevier,
Amsterdam, 231--239.

Does, R.J.M.M. and C.A.J. Klaassen (1984). The Berry-Esseen
theorem for functions of uniform spacings. {\sl Zeitschrift f\"ur
Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und verwandte Gebiete} {\bf 65}, 461--471.

Does, R.J.M.M., R. Helmers, and C.A.J. Klaassen (1987). On
the Edgeworth expansion for the sum of a function of uniform spacings.
{\sl Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference} {\bf 17}, 149--157.

Does, R.J.M.M., R. Helmers, and C.A.J. Klaassen (1988).
Approximating the distribution of Greenwood's statistic. {\sl Statistica
Neerlandica} {\bf 42}, 153--161.
 

Probability Theory

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1985). On an inequality of Chernoff. {\sl The
Annals of Probability} {\bf 13}, 966--974.

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1985). Strong unimodality. {\sl Advances in Applied
Probability} {\bf 17}, 905--907.

Klaassen, C.A.J., P. J. Mokveld, and A.J. van Es (2000).
Squared skewness minus kurtosis bounded by 186/125 for unimodal
distributions. {\sl Statistics and Probability Letters} {\bf 50},
131--135.
 
Klaassen, C.A.J. and J.Th. Runnenburg (2003).
Discrete Spacings. Statistica Neerlandica, to appear. ps file  pdf file
 

Varia

Klaassen, C.A.J. (1992). De \'e\'endimensionale statisticus.
{\sl Kwantitatieve Methoden} {\bf 40}, 143--155.
 

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