A large-deviation principle for Dirichlet posteriors

Bernoulli

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1021-1034

  Ganesh, Ayalvadi J ^a   O'Connell, Neil ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Bayesian nonparametrics; Dirichlet process; Large deviations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000339296     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318469     Document Type: Article

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