On posterior consistency in nonparametric regression problems

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1969-1987

  Choi, Taeryon ^a   Schervish, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Almost sure consistency; Differentiable functions; Empirical probability measure; Hellinger metric; In probability metric; Sieve

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348953749     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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