Solution

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With fixed positive prior parameters and , total exposure satisfies . Hence as the number of observed years grows, and
Thus the credibility estimate places asymptotically all its weight on the observed policy-weighted claim frequency. The assertion concerns the credibility weight; the scale of the predicted number of claims still includes the known next-year exposure .

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