Adaptive estimation of multivariate functions using conditionally Gaussian tensor-product spline priors

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Publication date 2012
Journal Electronic Journal of Statistics
Volume | Issue number 6 (2012)
Pages (from-to) 1984-2001
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract We investigate posterior contraction rates for priors on multivariate functions that are constructed using tensor-product B-spline expansions. We prove that using a hierarchical prior with an appropriate prior distribution on the partition size and Gaussian prior weights on the B-spline coefficients, procedures can be obtained that adapt to the degree of smoothness of the unknown function up to the order of the splines that are used. We take a unified approach including important nonparametric statistical settings like density estimation, regression, and classification.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1214/12-EJS735
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