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A finite identifiable model with posterior consistency
Example
Under the library AC convention for KL divergence and posterior laws, take , data space , and laws and , with prior mass at each parameter. This finite dominated model is identifiable, has KL support at its true law , and admits exponentially consistent tests. Hence the posterior mass at parameter tends to zero almost surely when the data are IID from .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The finite model, proper prior, IID observations from , and the test constructed in the Verification.
AC is included through the imported library KL definition and the posterior-consistency theorem. The Axiom of Choice
A parametric model is identifiable exactly when its parameter-to-law map is injective. Identifiability of an estimand
KL divergence is directional and for a probability law with itself, by its density-ratio definition. Kullback–Leibler divergence
The library total variation distance is . Total variation distance for probability laws
A finite vector of independent random elements has the product of its marginal laws. Independent random elements have product joint law
If , then for every real . The Hoeffding MGF bound for a variable in a unit interval
In a well-specified dominated IID model, prior KL support and summable type-I plus uniform type-II testing errors imply almost-sure posterior consistency on every measurable metric-separated complement. Posterior consistency from KL support and uniformly summable tests
For nonnegative and , . Markov's inequality for random variables
The series converges for . For , , and for the series diverges
The exponential is positive and strictly increasing, satisfies and , and obeys . The exponential addition formula , The exponential function is strictly increasing, The exponential is positive and satisfies
A parameter-measurable model is a probability kernel, domination supplies a sigma-finite common measure, and a likelihood density is a supplied measurable representative. Parameter-measurable statistical models as kernels, Dominated statistical experiments, Likelihood densities
A probability measure has total mass one. Probability measures and probability spaces
Verification
Given: The definitions and hypotheses in the Example.
The parameter and observation spaces have their full finite sigma-algebras. Counting measure is finite and hence sigma-finite. Its densities are , , , and ; they normalize, are jointly measurable, and define a parameter-measurable kernel. The two prior masses sum to one, so [F10,F11] verify the dominated kernel and proper prior hypotheses. The parameter-to-law map is injective because , so [F1] makes the model identifiable. For every , the KL neighborhood contains because and [F2] gives ; its prior mass is therefore at least .
Let be library total variation and put . Since by [F3], the parameter complement is , whose law is . Under either law, [F9] rewrites the exponential of the centered sum as a product, and independence [F4] factors its MGF into at most by [F5]. Under , rejection implies ; Markov [F7] applied to the exponential with gives . Under , nonrejection implies ; Markov [F7] with gives .
By [F9], lies in , so [F8] makes both test-error series converge. For every , the parameter complement is (whose law is ); for it is empty, so the same tests verify every required nonempty complement. The theorem [F6] therefore gives almost surely for any IID sequence with common law .
Depends on
- Posterior consistency from KL support and uniformly summable tests
- Identifiability of an estimand
- Kullback–Leibler divergence
- Total variation distance for probability laws
- Identical distribution and IID families
- Independent random elements have product joint law
- The Hoeffding MGF bound for a variable in a unit interval
- Markov's inequality for random variables
- For $|r| < 1$, $\sum_{k \ge 0} r^k = 1/(1-r)$, and for $|r| \ge 1$ the series diverges
- The Axiom of Choice
- The exponential addition formula $\exp(x+y)=\exp(x)\exp(y)$
- The exponential function is strictly increasing
- The exponential is positive and satisfies $\exp(-x)=1/\exp(x)$
- Probability measures and probability spaces
- Parameter-measurable statistical models as kernels
- Dominated statistical experiments
- Likelihood densities
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