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Posterior contraction rates for support boundary recovery

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  • Reiß, Markus
  • Schmidt-Hieber, Johannes

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Given a sample of a Poisson point process with intensity λf(x,y)=n1(f(x)≤y), we study recovery of the boundary function f from a nonparametric Bayes perspective. Because of the irregularity of this model, the analysis is non-standard. We establish a general result for the posterior contraction rate with respect to the L1-norm based on entropy and one-sided small probability bounds. From this, specific posterior contraction results are derived for Gaussian process priors and priors based on random wavelet series.

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  • Reiß, Markus & Schmidt-Hieber, Johannes, 2020. "Posterior contraction rates for support boundary recovery," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 130(11), pages 6638-6656.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:spapps:v:130:y:2020:i:11:p:6638-6656
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2020.06.005
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