Borrowing strengh in hierarchical Bayes: posterior concentration of the Dirichlet base measure

DOI10.3150/15-BEJ703zbMath1360.62103arXiv1301.0802MaRDI QIDQ282547

XuanLong Nguyen

Publication date: 12 May 2016

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0802

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet processesWasserstein metricsrandom measuresBayesian asymptoticsgeometry of supportposterior concentrationtransportation distances

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Bayesian inference (62F15) Random measures (60G57) Convergence of probability measures (60B10)

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