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
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