Asymptotic normality with small relative errors of posterior probabilities of half-spaces

DOI10.1214/aos/1035844978zbMath1014.62031OpenAlexW4245662106MaRDI QIDQ1873598

Dominique M. A. Haughton, Richard M. Dudley

Publication date: 14 July 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1035844978

zbMATH Keywords

Bernstein-von Mises theoremJeffreys priorMills' ratiogamma tail probabilitiesintermediate deviations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Asymptotic properties of parametric tests (62F05) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99)

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