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Past exam of the MSc in advanced computer science course of the University of Oxford 2021 Bayesian statistical probabilistic programming 3 b Solution by
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An idealized underlying probability space iswith the product Borel sigma-algebra. Its 27 independent random coordinates are , , twenty past standard-normal noises, and five future standard-normal noises. Define . Sampling an unknown variance does not mean drawing a new variance on each day; a single draw of applies to all durations in a trace.
Let be the event that the first twenty durations satisfy their corresponding observed inequalities. The observations are the twenty late/early labels, conditional on the fixed departure thresholds. They are not exact values of the latent . The posterior probability measure on traces isHere : at every interior parameter pair each strict normal-tail probability lies in , so their finite product has positive prior integral.
The returned outcome isThus the underlying sample space has dimension 27, the successful output space is , and the observations define the conditioning event . The desired output probability distribution is the pushforward measure of under . Rejection is an implementation device, not a third scientific answer:
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