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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2013 O 2 d Solution by
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The further observation is independent of the earlier observations conditional on . Integrate its conditional success probability against the posterior:The given factorial formula for the beta function gives this ratio as . Thus the posterior predictive probability isIt is the posterior mean of the Bernoulli success parameter. Independence here is conditional: sharing the uncertain parameter generally makes past and future observations dependent before conditioning on it.
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