On posterior consistency in selection models

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 827-842

  Lee, Jaeyong ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Posterior consistency; Selection model; Weight function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035594925     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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