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Bayesian server error rate with a Gamma prior

You model the number of server errors per hour as a Poisson process with unknown average rate λ\lambda (errors per hour). Before collecting data your belief about λ\lambda is a Gamma(α=3,β=2)\text{Gamma}(\alpha=3, \beta=2) prior, where α\alpha is the shape and β\beta is the rate. You then watch the server for 5 hours and record a total of 14 errors.

Using Bayesian updating, what is the posterior mean estimate of the error rate λ\lambda?

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