Asymptotic Normality of Posterior Distributions for Exponential Families when the Number of Parameters Tends to Infinity

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-68

  Ghosal, Subhashis ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exponential family, normal approximation, posterior consistency, posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347117630     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1999.1874     Document Type: Article

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