Regularized Posteriors in Linear Ill-Posed Inverse Problems

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 214-235

  Florens, Jean Pierre ^a   Simoni, Anna ^b  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional data; Gaussian process priors; Inverse problems; Measurable linear transformation; Posterior consistency; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860995589     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00784.x     Document Type: Article

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