Asymptotic normality of semiparametric and nonparametric posterior distributions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 457, 2002, Pages 222-235

  Shen, Xiaotong ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian central limit theorem; Inference; Likelihood; Maximum likelihood; Normality; Posterior; Prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036489060     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214502753479365     Document Type: Article

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