Solution

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Model gives the sequential forecast . The probability chain rule yields
Application of Bayes theorem makes the factors successive posterior predictive distributions, and their product is the Bayesian model evidence. Under conditionally independent sampling it is
Taking logarithms gives the prequential log score identity
Therefore the Bayes factor is
This solves the second half of part (d), which is missing from the TeX. Proper priors and finite positive evidences are needed; unrelated improper-prior normalizing constants do not cancel.

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