Rates of convergence for a Bayesian level set estimation

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 639-660

  Gayraud, Ghislaine ^a,c   Rousseau, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^c CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian non parametric estimation; Convergence rates of the posterior distribution; Level set

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044453724     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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