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The Dirichlet normal-mixture density is jointly measurable and normalized
Statement
Let be the probability measures on the Borel sets of , equipped with the evaluation sigma-algebra, and let . For define Then is jointly measurable, for every , and . In particular it is the Lebesgue density of the convolution of with .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The evaluation sigma-algebra on , , and .
Assume AC for the library normal location-scale density interface. The Axiom of Choice
A positive-variance normal law has its location-scale density: is the Lebesgue density of and integrates to one.
Probability measures and probability spaces and Measure kernel and probability kernel: each is a probability measure, and the evaluation map makes a probability kernel from to .
Measurability of integration against a kernel: integrating a nonnegative product-measurable function against a probability kernel gives a measurable function of the kernel's input.
Tonelli's theorem for nonnegative measurable functions on a sigma-finite product: nonnegative measurable functions on product measure spaces may be integrated in either order.
Proof
Given: The hypotheses in the Statement.
The kernel in [F2] is a probability kernel because, for fixed , is a probability measure, while for fixed Borel , is measurable by the evaluation sigma-algebra. The integrand is continuous on and hence product-measurable. Therefore [F3] makes its integral against jointly measurable.
The integrand is strictly positive, so its integral against a probability measure is positive. It is bounded above by , so the integral is finite and has the stated upper bound.
By [F4], where the inner integral is one by [F1] and has total mass one. Thus is a probability density.
For every Borel set , Tonelli [F4] gives . The inner integral is by [F1], so the right side is the convolution measure by its definition. Hence this density represents the convolution law in the Statement.
Depends on
Used by
- An interval-mass condition removes the Gaussian-bias logarithm Corollary
- Compactly supported Gaussian mixtures admit logarithmic-size finite approximations Lemma
- Hellinger entropy for compact-location normal mixtures in a scale band Lemma
- Interval masses give a log-free local KL neighborhood for the mixture prior Lemma
- The mixture prior places local KL and log-square mass near a compact smooth truth Lemma
- The posterior excludes large scales and mixing mass far from compact data Lemma
- Dirichlet normal-mixture posterior contraction Theorem
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Sources
- Subhashis Ghosal and Aad W. van der Vaart, Posterior convergence rates of Dirichlet mixtures at smooth densities, §1.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Subhashis Ghosal and Aad W. van der Vaart, Fundamentals of Nonparametric Bayesian Inference, §6.3 (standard reference, not scraped)