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Goals per match with a Gamma prior

You model the number of goals a team scores per match as a Poisson process with unknown average rate λ\lambda (goals per match). Your prior is Gamma(α=2,β=2)\text{Gamma}(\alpha=2, \beta=2), with shape α\alpha and rate β\beta. Across 4 matches the team scores a total of 6 goals.

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

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