Let X1, . . . , Xn be independent Poisson(θ) random variables with parameter θ > 0. (1) Find the Bayes estimator of θ for a Gamma(α, β) prior. (2) Find the MSE of the Bayes estimator.
Let X1, . . . , Xn be independent Poisson(θ) random variables with parameter θ >...
Let X1, . . . , Xn be independent Beta(θ, 1) random variables with parameter θ > 0. (1) Find the Bayes estimator of θ for a Gamma(α, β) prior. (2) Find the MSE of the Bayes estimator.
Let the random sample X1, . . . , Xn be taken from the Binomial distribution with parameter θ, which is unknown and must be estimated. Let the prior distribution of θ be the beta distribution with known parameters α > 0 and β > 0. Find the Bayes risk and the Bayes estimator using squared error loss. estimator of θ.
Let X1, . . . , Xn be a random sample following Gamma(2, β) for some unknown parameter β > 0. (i) Now let’s think like a Bayesian. Consider a prior distribution of β ∼ Gamma(a, b) for some a, b > 0. Derive the posterior distribution of β given (X1, . . . , Xn) = (x1,...,xn). (j) What is the posterior Bayes estimator of β assuming squared error loss?
3. Let X1, X2, . . . , Xn be independent samples of a random variable with the probability density function (PDF): fX(x) = θ(x − 1/ 2 ) + 1, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 ,0 otherwise where θ ∈ [−2, 2] is an unknown parameter. We define the estimator ˆθn = 12X − 6 to estimate θ. (a) Is ˆθn an unbiased estimator of θ? (b) Is ˆθn a consistent estimator of θ? (c) Find the mean squared...
Let X1, . . . , Xn be independent Gamma(2, θ) random variables. The goal is to test H0 : θ = 2 versus H1 : θ not equal to 2. (1) Find the test statistic Λ. (2) Derive the rejection region of the corresponding LRT
Conditional on θ, the random variables X1, X2, ,Xn are îid from In turn, the parameter θ is best regarded as random with prior distribution αθ where a 0 is known (a) Find the posterior mean of θ (b) Discuss how you would formulate the Bayesian test of versus Conditional on θ, the random variables X1, X2, ,Xn are îid from In turn, the parameter θ is best regarded as random with prior distribution αθ where a 0 is known...
3. Let Xi, , Xn be a random sample from a Poisson distribution with p.m.f Assume the prior distribution of Of λ is is an exponential with mean 1, i.e. the prior pdi g(A) e-λ, λ > 0 Note that the exponential distribution is a special gamma distribution; and a general gamma distribution with parameters α > 0 and β > 0 has the pd.f. h(A; α, β)-16(. otherwise Also the mean of a gamma random variable with the pd.f.h(Χα,...
Let X1,…Xn ~ iid Gamma (α, θ) where the α is known and interested in the rate parameter θ, and we chosen a prior θ~ Gamma (3, 1). Find the posterior distribution
Let X1, ..., Xn and Y1, ..., Ym be two independent samples from a Poisson dis- tribution with parameter 1. Let a, b be two positive numbers. Consider the following estimator for 1: i ,Y1 +...+Ym = a- X1 +...+Xn n т (a) What condition is needed on a and b so that û is unbiased? (b) What is the MSE of i?
Question 6 Let X1, . . . , Xn denote a sequence of independent and identically distributed i.id. N(14x, σ2) random variables, and let Yı, . . . , Yrn denote an independent sequence of iid. Nụy, σ2) ran- dom variables. il Λί and Y is an unbiased estimator of μ for any value of λ in the unit interval, i.e. 0 < λ < 1. 2. Verify that the variance of this estimator is minimised when and determine the...