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Q146Section III (Statistics)146 of 180

Bayesian Poisson — a Gamma prior and its posterior mean

Let X∼Poisson⁡(λ)X\sim\operatorname{Poisson}(\lambda) and a single realization of X resulted in 3. If λ\lambda has a prior distribution P(λ)=qλe−3λ,λ>0P(\lambda)=q\lambda e^{-3\lambda}, \lambda>0, then the posterior mean is given by:

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