Consistency of the posterior distribution and MLE for piecewise linear regression

We prove the weak consistency of the posterior distribution and that of the Bayes estimator for a two-phase piecewise linear regression mdoel where the break-point is unknown. The non-differentiability of the likelihood of the model with regard to the break- point parameter induces technical difficulties that we overcome by creating a regularised version of the problem at hand. We first recover the strong consistency of the quantities of interest for the regularised version, using results about the MLE, and we then prove that the regularised version and the original version of the problem share the same asymptotic properties.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00681274
Author Launay, Tristan, Philippe, Anne, Lamarche, Sophie
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 15, 2026, 15:07 (UTC)
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Identifier hal-00681274
Language en
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contributor Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray (LMJL) ; Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST) ; Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Launay, Tristan
date 2012-03-21T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2026-04-16T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1203.4753
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