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Past exam of the statistics course of the University of Oxford 2015 3 a Solution by
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Let and , assuming both are positive. The prior odds are . Given data , the posterior odds areWith conditional joint likelihood , define the hypothesis-conditional marginal densitiesThe Bayes factor for relative to is . The normalizations matter: the prior distribution within each hypothesis must have total probability one. Bayes' theorem now givesConverting posterior odds to posterior probability therefore gives
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