Asymptotic Properties of Nonparametric Bayesian Procedures

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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