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Convergence rates of nonparametric posterior distributions

Xing, Yang LU (2011) In Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 141(11). p.3382-3390
Abstract
We study the asymptotic behavior of posterior distributions for i.i.d. data. We present general posterior convergence rate theorems which extend several known results on rates of posterior convergence. Our main tools are the Hausdorff α-entropy introduced by Xing and Ranneby (2009) and a new notion of prior concentration. Our results are applied to several statistical models.
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Hellinger consistency, Posterior distribution, Rate of convergence, Sieve, Infinite-dimensional model
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Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
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141
issue
11
pages
3382 - 3390
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North-Holland
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  • scopus:79959799594
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1873-1171
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10.1016/j.jspi.2010.10.009
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English
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  publisher    = {{North-Holland}},
  series       = {{Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference}},
  title        = {{Convergence rates of nonparametric posterior distributions}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.jspi.2010.10.009}},
  volume       = {{141}},
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