Solution

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Ignoring constants, the complete-data log posterior is
Take conditional expectations under . Define
Completing the square gives
For ,
so is positive definite. Exact rowwise expectations require summing over states. Thus the cost is exponential in the largest number of missing covariates in one row, more precisely times a polynomial factor for accumulating first and second moments.

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