To the frequentist who computes posteriors, not all priors are useful asymptotically: in this paper, a Bayesian perspective on test sequences is proposed and Schwartz’s Kullback–Leibler condition generalised to widen range of applications posterior convergence. With tests weakened form contiguity termed remote contiguity, we prove simple fully general theorems, for consistency rates convergence...

A large financial market is described by a sequence of standard general models of continuous trading. It turns out that the absence of asymptotic arbitrage of the first kind is equivalent to the contiguity of sequence of objective probabilities with respect to the sequence of upper envelopes of equivalent martingale measures, while absence of asymptotic arbitrage of the second kind is equivalen...

DIVCLUS-T is a descendant hierarchical clustering algorithm based on a monothetic bipartitional approach allowing the dendrogram of the hierarchy to be read as a decision tree. We propose in this paper a new version of this method called C-DIVCLUS-T which is able to take contiguity constraints into account. We apply C-DIVCLUS-T to hydrological areas described by agricultural and environmental v...

Political districting is an intractable problem with significant ramifications for political representation. Districts often are required to satisfy some legal constraints, but these typically are not very restrictive, allowing decision makers to influence the composition of these districts without violating relevant laws. For example, while districts must often comprise a single contiguous are...

Trace conditioning, a form of classical conditioning in which the presentation of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US) is separated in time by an interstimulus interval, requires an intact hippocampus. In contrast, classical conditioning procedures in which the CS and US are not separated by an interstimulus interval (i.e., delay conditioning procedures) typically d...

Abstract Fundamentally, meaning is organized along two dimensions, similarity and contiguity, corresponding to areas of the brain primarily responsible for language processing, Wernicke’s area Broca’s area, respectively. Modern culture has tended overemphasize dimension through money/commodification in capitalism, mathematics science, with disastrous ecological consequences. Ecostylistics can c...