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New approaches to Bayesian consistency

Statistics Theory 2007-06-13 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We use martingales to study Bayesian consistency. We derive sufficient conditions for both Hellinger 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.

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@article{arxiv.math/0503672,
  title  = {New approaches to Bayesian consistency},
  author = {Stephen Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0503672},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000409 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)