Optional Pólya tree and Bayesian inference

DOI10.1214/09-AOS755zbMath1189.62048arXiv1010.0490MaRDI QIDQ973873

Li Ma, Wing-Hung Wong

Publication date: 26 May 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0490

zbMATH Keywords

density estimation; Bayesian inference; Pólya tree; recursive partition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G07: Density estimation

62F15: Bayesian inference

60G57: Random measures

62G99: Nonparametric inference

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