On rates of convergence for posterior distributions in infinite-dimensional models

DOI10.1214/009053606000001361zbMath1117.62047arXiv0708.1892OpenAlexW3105623078MaRDI QIDQ995423

Antonio Lijoi, Igor Prünster, Stephen G. Walker

Publication date: 3 September 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1892

zbMATH Keywords

rates of convergenceposterior distributionmixture of Dirichlet processesHellinger consistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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