Data tracking and the understanding of Bayesian consistency

Biometrika

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 765-778

  Walker, Stephen G ^a   Lijoi, Antonio ^b   Prünster, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian consistency; Bayesian density estimation; Hellinger distance; Kullback Leibler divergence; Weak neighbourhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944483363     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/92.4.765     Document Type: Review

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