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We provide general conditions to derive posterior concentration rates for Aalen counting processes. The conditions are designed to resemble those proposed in the literature for the problem of density estimation, for instance in Ghosal et…

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This work is devoted to the problem of estimation of the localization of Poisson source. The observations are inhomogeneous Poisson processes registered by the $k\geq 3$ detectors on the plane. We study the behavior of the Bayes estimators…

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