Moderate deviations for Bayes posteriors

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 153-167

  Eichelsbacher, Peter ^a   Ganesh, Ayalvadi ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian asymptotics; Dirichlet process; Large deviations; Moderate deviations; P lya tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036005414     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00003     Document Type: Article

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