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This paper presents a sufficient condition for second order efficiency of an estimator. The condition is easily checked in the case of minimum contrast estimators. The ^-minimum contrast estimator is defined and proved to be second order efficient for every, 0 < < 1. The Fisher scoring method is also considered in the light of second order efficiency. It is shown that a contrast function is associated with the second order tensor and the affine connection. This fact leads us to prove the above assertions in the differential geometric framework due to Amari.
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