Nonparametric bernstein-von mises theorems in gaussian white noise

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1999-2028

  Castillo, Ismaël ^a   Nickl, Richard ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Efficiency; Plug in property

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907100115     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOS1133     Document Type: Article

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