he present book is based on lectures given by the author at the University of Tokyo during the past ten years. It is intended as a textbook to be studied by students on their own or to be used in a course on Functional Analysis, i.e., the general th
% This is an example of using the Moreau posterior approx. % for empirical Bayes inference of linear regression models with an elastic net prior. % For more detail on the method see the paper % "A Moreau-Yosida approximation scheme for posterior qua