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Find the Bayes estimator of the rate of a Poisson distribution

This example illustrates how to find the Bayes estimator, under squared error loss function, of the rate of a Poisson distribution if the prior distribution on the rate is a gamma distribution.

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Exponential Families: A Review

Many of the important distributions belong to a special class of distributions because their probability mass function (PMF) or probability density function (PDF) satisfies a specific mathematical…

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Exponential Families

Exponential families are a large family of probability density functions (PDF) and probability mass functions (PMF) that share certain convenient and important mathematical properties that are…

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Discrete Uniform Distribution

The discrete uniform distribution is one of the simplest discrete distributions. In this lesson, the distribution is defined via its probability mass function. The cumulative distribution function…

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