Concentration rate and consistency of the posterior distribution for selected priors under monotonicity constraints

International audienceIn this paper, we consider the well known problem of estimating a density function under qualitative assumptions. More precisely, we estimate monotone non-increasing densities in a Bayesian setting and derive concentration rate for the posterior distribution for a Dirichlet process and finite mixture prior. We prove that the posterior distribution based on both priors concentrates at the rate (n/log(n))−1/3, which is the minimax rate of estimation up to a log(n) factor. We also study the behaviour of the posterior for the point-wise loss at any fixed point of the support of the density and for the sup-norm. We prove that the posterior distribution is consistent for both loss functions