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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 ii Paper 2 25J i Solution by
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The uniform prior has , so the posterior is . Its mean and mode areThus the uniform-prior posterior mode is the maximum-likelihood estimator, including . The mean shrinks toward and equals the maximum-likelihood estimator only when .
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