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If X1, X2, ..., X20 are i.i.d. samples from a poisson process with sum of the Xi's = 113. Tf the prior distribution is a gamma with mean 1.75 & variance .21875 the posterior distribution is closest to. gamma(35,120) gamma(110,20) poisson(lambda = 5.65) gamma(125,30) beta(127,28)

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Carlos Rodriguez <carlos@math.albany.edu>

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