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Suppose we have data generated according to a multivariate normal distribution with a fixed unknown mean vector that is sparse in the sense of being nearly black. Optimality of Bayes estimates and posterior concentration properties in terms of the minimax risk in the $l_2$ norm corresponding to a very general class of continuous shrinkage priors are studied in this work. The class of priors considered is rich enough to include a great variety of heavy tailed prior distributions, such as, the three parameter beta normal mixtures (including the horseshoe), the generalized double Pareto, the inverse gamma and the normal-exponential-gamma priors. Assuming that the number of non-zero components of the mean vector is known, we show that the Bayes estimators corresponding to this general class of priors attain the minimax risk in the $l_2$ norm (possibly up to a multiplicative constant) and the corresponding posterior distributions contract around the true mean vector at the minimax optimal rate for appropriate choice of the global shrinkage parameter. Moreover, we provide conditions for which these posterior distributions contract around the corresponding Bayes estimates at least as fast

Author

Ghosh, Prasenjit; Chakrabarti, Arijit

Published

2014

Language

EN