Solution

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Integrating the positive component's normal distribution prior gives its prior predictive distribution:
The negative component gives . Let and denote those centred normal densities. The point-null mixture prior assigns component odds , so the posterior odds of the positive component are
Its posterior probability is . Evidence depends on , so large effects of either sign favour the positive component. This is the marginal distribution before observing , not the posterior predictive law for a second observation conditional on it.

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