Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5096070 | Journal of Econometrics | 2015 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
This paper studies large sample properties of a semiparametric Bayesian approach to inference in a linear regression model. The approach is to model the distribution of the regression error term by a normal distribution with the variance that is a flexible function of covariates. The main result of the paper is a semiparametric Bernstein-von Mises theorem under misspecification: even when the distribution of the regression error term is not normal, the posterior distribution of the properly recentered and rescaled regression coefficients converges to a normal distribution with the zero mean and the variance equal to the semiparametric efficiency bound.
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Authors
Andriy Norets,