Posterior concentration rates for infinite dimensional exponential families

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 311-334

  Rivoirard, Vincent ^a   Rousseau, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Bayesian non parametric; Rates of convergence; Sobolev and Besov balls; Wavelets and Fourier Bases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865707155     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-BA710     Document Type: Article

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