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= Solution

The <ridge regression> estimator minimizes
$$
\lVert Y-X\beta\rVert_2^2+\lambda\lVert\beta\rVert_2^2.
$$
Its gradient vanishes exactly when $(X^TX+\lambda I)\beta=X^TY$. Since $\lambda>0$ makes this matrix positive definite,
$$
\widehat\beta_\lambda=(X^TX+\lambda I)^{-1}X^TY.
$$

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