Asymptotics for posterior hazards

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1906-1945

  De Blasi, Pierpaolo ^a   Peccati, Giovanni ^b,c   Prünster, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Bayesian consistency; Bayesian nonparametrics; Central limit theorem; Completely random measure; Path variance; Random hazard rate; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649123579     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS631     Document Type: Article

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