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This chapter provides a brief review of some large sample frequentist properties of nonparametric Bayesian procedures. The review is not comprehensive, but rather, is meant to give a simple, heuristic introduction to some of the main concepts. We mainly focus on consistency but we touch on a few other issues as well.
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Wasserman, L. (1998). Asymptotic Properties of Nonparametric Bayesian Procedures. In: Dey, D., Müller, P., Sinha, D. (eds) Practical Nonparametric and Semiparametric Bayesian Statistics. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 133. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1732-9_16
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