On the uniform consistency of Bayes estimates for multinomial probabilities

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176347751MaRDI QIDQ1813488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Persi Diaconis, David Freedman

Publication date 25 June 1992

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176347751

zbMATH Keywords

binomial probabilitymultinomial distributionposterior odds ratiodegree of positivity of the prior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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