Walker, S.G. (2004) New approaches to Bayesian consistency. Annals of Statistics, 32 (5). pp. 2028-2043. ISSN 0090-5364.
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Abstract
We use martingales to study Bayesian consistency. We derive sufficient conditions for both Hettinger and Kullback-Leibler consistency, which do not rely on the use of a sieve. Alternative sufficient conditions for Hellinger consistency are also found and demonstrated on examples.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Hellinger consistency; Kullback-Leibler consistency; martingale sequence; predictive density |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Mathematics Statistics and Actuarial Science |
| Depositing User: | Judith Broom |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2007 18:21 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2012 10:09 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/586 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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