On rates of convergence for posterior distributions in infinite-dimensional models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 738-746

  Walker, Stephen G ^a   Lijoi, Antonio ^b,d   Prünster, Igor ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e ICER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hellinger consistency; Mixture of Dirichlet process; Posterior distribution; Rates of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548274912     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001361     Document Type: Article

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