Posterior consistency of Dirichlet mixtures for estimating a transition density

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1711-1726

  Tang, Yongqiang ^a   Ghosal, Subhashis ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet mixture; Markov process; Posterior consistency; Transition density; Uniformly exponentially consistent tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751543902     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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