Optional Pólya tree and Bayesian inference

DOI10.1214/09-AOS755zbMath1189.62048arXiv1010.0490MaRDI QIDQ973873

Li Ma, Wing-Hung Wong

Publication date: 26 May 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0490

zbMATH Keywords

density estimationBayesian inferencePólya treerecursive partition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Bayesian inference (62F15) Random measures (60G57) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

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