Bayesian aspects of some nonparametric problems

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 532-552

  Zhao, Linda H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; Conjugate priors; Minimax; Nonparametric regression; White noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034347381     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1016218229     Document Type: Article

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