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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 36 1 b Solution by
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For the independent Bernoulli trials, the log likelihood function, apart from its constant, is . Its negative expected second derivative, the Fisher information, isFor , the Jeffreys prior is proportional to its square root. Since , its normalized form isThe Jeffreys prior is invariant under smooth one-to-one reparameterization as a measure. If , then , so . Thus recomputing it in the new coordinate gives precisely the transformed prior, rather than a new prior. In several dimensions the corresponding density is , with the same Jacobian transformation property.
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