Weak convergence and the exponential rate of concentration for posterior density functions

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(90)90041-5MaRDI QIDQ916255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John L. Maryak, James C. Spall

Publication date 1990

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(90)90041-5

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergenceexponential familyweak convergence theoremposterior densitymarginal densitiesfinite-sample resultmean value theorem for integrals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Multivariate analysis (62H99) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05)

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