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Gamma-exponential conjugacy

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A gamma prior with shape α and rate β combined with n independent observations from an exponential distribution of rate θ gives the posterior
θ∣X1​,…,Xn​∼Gamma(α+n,β+∑i=1n​Xi​).
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Under squared-error loss, the Bayes estimator is its posterior mean (α+n)/(β+∑i​Xi​).

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