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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 216 6 a Solution by
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Let . To distinguish the number of posterior draws from the training-sample size, write it as ; in the question's sample notation . The Monte Carlo estimator of the requested posterior mean isFor independent exact posterior draws it is unbiased, andThe features are conditioned on as fixed data. The estimated probability concerns a future genuine banknote under the posterior predictive probability, not an indicator sampled from that predictive distribution.
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