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Let S=∑i=1n​Xi​ be the number of heads. The likelihood function for the Bernoulli distribution sample is proportional to θS(1−θ)n−S. A uniform distribution prior on [0,1] is the Beta(1,1) distribution, so Beta-binomial conjugacy gives the posterior distribution
θ∣X1​,…,Xn​∼Beta(S+1,n−S+1)​.
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