RATES of convergence for the posterior distributions of mixtures of betas and adaptive nonparametric estimation of the density

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 146-180

  Rousseau, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Bayesian nonparametric; Kernel; Mixtures of Betas; Rates of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949090480     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS703     Document Type: Article

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