Consistent semiparametric Bayesian inference about a location parameter

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-193

  Ghosal, Subhashis ^a   Ghosh, Jayanta K ^b,c   Ramamoorthi, R V ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

62F15; Consistency; Dirichlet process; Kullback Leibler number; Location parameter; Polya tree; Posterior distribution; Primary 62G20

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000113029     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00192-x     Document Type: Article

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