Quantile pyramids for Bayesian nonparametrics

DOI10.1214/07-AOS553zbMath1360.62124arXiv0902.4410OpenAlexW2020117232MaRDI QIDQ1002150

Nils Lid Hjort, Stephen G. Walker

Publication date: 25 February 2009

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4410

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Bayesian inference (62F15) Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Random measures (60G57)

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