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Past exam of the simulation and statistical programming course of the University of Oxford 2021 3 a i Solution by
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Let . Sinceintegration from zero to gives . Letting and imposing unit total probability givesThe probability density function is positive for because . Consequently the cumulative distribution function is increasing, starts at zero and tends to one. This verifies that the derived normalizing constant defines a probability distribution. The family is the exponential-logarithmic distribution with the complementary mixing parameter .
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