Uniform-Pareto conjugacy ($\theta \mid y\sim \mathrm{Pareto}(\alpha +n,\max (\beta ,\max y))$)

A Pareto distribution prior for the upper limit of independent uniform distributions remains Pareto after observing data. The likelihood adds the sample size to the shape and replaces the lower bound by the larger of the prior bound and sample maximum.

For positive observations and $m=\max (\beta ,{\max }_j{y}_j)$, the Bayesian model evidence follows by integrating the uniform distribution likelihood against a Pareto distribution prior. For independent groups with shared fixed hyperparameters, these evidences multiply. The resulting hyperparameter log likelihood is $I\log \alpha -{\sum }_i\log (\alpha +n_i)-\alpha {\sum }_i\log (m_i/\beta )$ up to a constant.