Kullback leibler property of kernel mixture priors in bayesian density estimation

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 298-331

  Wu, Yuefeng ^a   Ghosal, Subhashis ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian density estimation; Dirichlet process; Kernel mixture; Kullback Leibler property; Posterior consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649119440     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-EJS130     Document Type: Article

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