Adaptive Bayesian inference on the mean of an infinite-dimensional normal distribution

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 536-559

  Belitser, Eduard ^a   Ghosal, Subhashis ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Bayes procedure; Convergence rate; Minimax risk; Model selection; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038702584     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1051027880     Document Type: Article

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