Convergence rates of posterior distributions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 500-531

  Ghosal, Subhashis ^a   Ghosh, Jayanta K ^b   Van Der Vaart, Aad W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Infinite dimensional model; Posterior distribution; Rate of convergence; Sieves; Splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034164796     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1016218228     Document Type: Article

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