Section: New Results

Contributions earlier to 2012 but only published in 2012

Participants : Gérard Biau, Vincent Rivoirard, Gilles Stoltz, Olivier Catoni.

We do not discuss here the contributions provided by [16] , [17] , [11] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [18] , since they were achieved in 2011 or earlier (but only published this year due to the reviewing and publishing process). Also, the book [25] (whose first edition was published in 2009) was augmented and revised for its second edition, published this year.