Posterior consistency for semi-parametric regression problems

Bernoulli

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-312

  Amewou Atisso, Messan ^a   Ghosal, Subhashis ^b   Ghosh, Jayanta K ^a   Ramamoorthi, R V ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Dirichlet mixtures; Exponentially consistent test; Kullback Leibler number; Linear regression; Polya tree; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842610336     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1068128979     Document Type: Article

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