Posterior consistency of Dirichlet mixtures in density estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 143-158

  Ghosal, S ^a   Ghosh, J K ^b   Ramamoorthi, R V ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Dirichlet process; Mixture; Posterior consistency; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033074585     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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