Lower bounds for posterior rates with Gaussian process priors

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1281-1299

  Castillo, Ismaël ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Gaussian process priors; Lower bounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650708410     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-EJS273     Document Type: Article

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