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Sufficient conditions for Bayesian consistency

  • Yang Xing
  • , Bo Ranneby

    Publication: Book/Report/ProceedingsReportResearch

    Abstract

    We introduce the Hausdorff alpha-entropy to study the strong Hellinger con-sistency of posterior distributions. We obtain general Bayesian consistency theorems which extend the well-known results of Barron, Schervish and Wasserman (1999), Ghosal, Ghosh and Ramamoorthi (1999) and Walker (2004). As an application we strengthen previous results on Bayesian consistency of the (normal) mixture models
    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherCentre of Biostochastics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    Number of pages21
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

    Publication series

    SeriesResearch report (Centre of Biostochastics)
    Number2008:6
    ISSN1651-8543

    Keywords

    • Hellinger consistency
    • infinite-dimensional model
    • posterior distribution
    • sieve

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