• Title of article

    Asymptotic Normality of Posterior Distributions for Exponential Families when the Number of Parameters Tends to Infinity

  • Author/Authors

    Ghosal، نويسنده , , Subhashis، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوفصلنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    20
  • From page
    49
  • To page
    68
  • Abstract
    We study consistency and asymptotic normality of posterior distributions of the natural parameter for an exponential family when the dimension of the parameter grows with the sample size. Under certain growth restrictions on the dimension, we show that the posterior distributions concentrate in neighbourhoods of the true parameter and can be approximated by an appropriate normal distribution.
  • Keywords
    Exponential family , Normal approximation , Posterior consistency , posterior distribution
  • Journal title
    Journal of Multivariate Analysis
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    Journal of Multivariate Analysis
  • Record number

    1557651