Rates of contraction for posterior distributions in L r-metrics, 1 ≤r ≤∞

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2883-2911

  Giné, Evarist ^a   Nickl, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nonparametric hypothesis testing; Posterior; Rate of contraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856278451     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOS924     Document Type: Article

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