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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 36 1 c Solution by
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Conditional on the success probability, the count has binomial distribution. Integrating its likelihood under the uniform prior distribution, or equivalently a beta distribution with parameters , givesThe prior predictive distribution is therefore uniform over the possible counts. Excluding the single point does not alter this integral because a continuous prior distribution gives that point zero probability. This calculation is the marginalization underlying Beta-binomial conjugacy.
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