On the consistency of Bayes estimates

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176349830zbMATH Open0595.62022OpenAlexW2003706076MaRDI QIDQ1077832FDOQ1077832

Authors: Persi Diaconis, David Freedman 

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176349830

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zbMATH Keywords

consistencyDirichlet priorlocationcounterexamplesBayes estimatesproblemmerging of opinionsuniformitiesfrequency properties of Bayes rulessubjective equivalent to consistencytail-free priors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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