We discuss Bayesian inference on a low-dimensional targeted parameter in the presence of possibly highly complex nuisance components within the semi-parametric inference framework using an estimating function approach. We obtain a posterior distribution using non-parametric Bayesian methods through the Dirichlet process and the Bayesian bootstrap. We relax the commonly deployed notion of stochastic equicontinuity and develop a framework leading to posterior inference with good frequentist properties, specifically we demonstrate that the posterior distribution is asymptotically Normal and concentrates at the true value of the parameter. We emphasize the specific assumptions that are required to obtain these results, and how relaxing any of them alters the conclusions. We verify the analytical results in simulation.
Asymptotic normality approximations often fail to hold for extremum estimators when the true value of the parameter is at or close to the boundary of a parameter space. I analyze and develop tests using a quasi-unconstrained estimator, which is asymptotically normal even when the true parameter vector is near or at the...
We develop a Gaussian comparison theory for posterior inference in non-Gaussian high-dimensional models. The framework allows for model misspecification and does not require the posterior distribution itself to be approximately Gaussian. Working directly with likelihood processes on separable function spaces, we establ...
We develop two complementary Bayesian procedures for analytic inference under informative sampling. The first constructs a coherent likelihood by modeling the sample-level distribution of the design weight given the study variable and recovering the conditional inclusion probability through the identity of Sverchkov an...
Kosuke Morikawa, Jae Kwang Kim, Won Chang· 0 citations
Bayesian inference for discrete models with intractable normalizing constants is computationally challenging, particularly when the sample space is large or countably infinite. Although some likelihood-based Bayesian methods can circumvent the intractable normalizing constant, their uncertainty quantification may be po...
Jiong-Ran Wang, D. Pati, A. Bhattacharya· 0 citations
Results show that SME-BETEL credible sets are asymptotically calibrated to the sampling variability of the score matching estimator, yielding valid frequentist coverage under model misspecification and prove a Bernstein-von Mises theorem for the SME-BETEL posterior.
Jiong-Ran Wang, D. Pati, A. Bhattacharya· 1 citation
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