Solution

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After measurements the normal-normal conjugacy formulas are
The upper monitoring limit is . Its center moves toward the athlete's own mean and the population's influence diminishes. Its predictive width decreases toward , since uncertainty about the mean vanishes but the next measurement's error remains. The absolute upper limit need not decrease monotonically: its center can move upward or downward with the observations. This is sequential normal predictive monitoring.

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