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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 36 2 c Solution by
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A constant improper prior would give the formal posterior density kernel . However,There is no normalized posterior distribution under this prior. The failure is not simply that the prior is improper: some improper priors give proper posteriors. Here posterior propriety itself fails after this single observation, so probabilities, quantiles and a posterior mean cannot be assigned to that kernel.
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