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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 35 3 c Solution by
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Write , with independent and . The convolution of independent random variables is again a normal distribution, so the prior predictive laws areThese are predictive distributions before observing , hence the Bayesian model evidence for the observed mean. The residual information in the original observations is common to both models and cancels in their Bayes factor.
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