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Steps to figure out a posterior distribution when it might be simple enough to have an analytic form?
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I am trying to compute a Bayesian estimate of some coefficients for an autoregression, with 11 data samples: $$ Y_{i} = \mu + \alpha\cdot{}Y_{i-1} + \...
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Posteriors and Sample Sizes
Suppose we have a two dimensional parameter $\theta=(\mu,\sigma^2)$, and a prior distribution $p(\theta)$. Let our sample come from a normal distribution with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2$. The ...
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