Rates of contraction for posterior distributions in Lr-metrics, 1 ≤ r ≤ ∞
L^r 距离下后验分布的收缩速率(1≤r≤∞)
The frequentist behavior of nonparametric Bayes estimates, more specifically, rates of contraction of the posterior distributions to shrinking Lr-norm neighborhoods, 1 ≤ r ≤ ∞, of the unknown parameter, are studied. A theorem for nonparametric density estimation is proved under general approximation-theoretic assumptions on the prior. The result is applied to a variety of common examples, including Gaussian process, wavelet series, normal mixture and histogram priors. The…