Necessary and sufficient conditions for high-dimensional posterior consistency under g-priors

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 627-664

  Sparks, Douglas K ^a   Khare, Kshitij ^b   Ghosh, Malay ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical bayes; G prior; Hyper g prior; Posterior consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931412414     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-BA893     Document Type: Article

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