Posterior convergence rates for Dirichlet mixtures of beta densities

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1981-1992

  Kruijer, Willem ^a   van der Vaart, Aad ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian mixtures; Bernstein approximation; Convergence rates; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 40949152002     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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