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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 44 2 b Solution by
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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 giveIn 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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