Fundamentals of Nonparametric Bayesian Inference

DOI10.1017/9781139029834zbMath1376.62004OpenAlexW2736618479MaRDI QIDQ5738922

Aad W. van der Vaart, Subhashis Ghosal

Publication date: 13 June 2017

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139029834

consistency model selection Gaussian process Bayesian method survival analysis Bernstein-von Mises theorem Dirichlet processes adaptation computation nonparametric Bayesian inference contraction rates discrete random structures large sample behavior posteriors prior construction Bayesian methods for infinite-dimensional models priors on function spaces priors on spaces of probability measures process mixtures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Gaussian processes (60G15) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02) Reliability and life testing (62N05) General topics in artificial intelligence (68T01) Foundations of stochastic processes (60G05)

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