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Posterior Contraction Rates of Density Derivative Estimation

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  • Weining Shen

    (University of California)

  • Subhashis Ghosal

    (North Carolina State University)

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In this paper, we study the problem of Bayesian estimation of derivatives of a density function on the unit interval. We use a finite random series prior based on B-splines and study the asymptotic properties of the posterior distribution under the setting of fixed smoothness of the true function. We obtain the posterior contraction rate under both the L 2- and L ∞ $L_{\infty }$ -distances. The rate under L 2-distance agrees with the minimax optimal rate. This result is then extended to the estimation of a multivariate density function on the unit cube and its mixed partial derivatives using tensor product B-splines.

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  • Weining Shen & Subhashis Ghosal, 2017. "Posterior Contraction Rates of Density Derivative Estimation," Sankhya A: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Springer;Indian Statistical Institute, vol. 79(2), pages 336-354, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sankha:v:79:y:2017:i:2:d:10.1007_s13171-017-0105-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s13171-017-0105-7
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