Posterior contraction of the population polytope in finite admixture models

Bernoulli

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 618-646

  Nguyen, Xuanlong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian asymptotics; Convex geometry; Convex polytope; Hausdorff metric; Latent mixing measures; Population structure; Rates of convergence; Topic simplex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925010528     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/13-BEJ582     Document Type: Article

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