Solution

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The joint density factors as . In the full conditional distribution of , all factors not involving cancel. The remaining likelihood function and exponential distribution prior give
In shape–rate convention this is , a special case of the Gamma–Poisson hierarchical model. It depends only on the node's observed child and parent , as required for its Gibbs sampler update.

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