The Bernstein-Von-Mises theorem under misspecification

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 354-381

  Kleijn, B J K ^a   van der Vaart, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consistency; Credible set; Limit distribution; Misspecification; Posterior distribution; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875400086     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-EJS675     Document Type: Article

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