Asymptotic normality of the posterior given a statistic

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-137

  Yuan, Ao ^a   Clarke, Bertrand ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Local limit theorem; Partial information; Posterior normality

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142780562     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315937     Document Type: Article

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