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Typos per page with a weak Gamma prior

You model the number of typos per page in a manuscript as a Poisson process with unknown average rate λ\lambda (typos per page). Your prior is Gamma(α=1,β=4)\text{Gamma}(\alpha=1, \beta=4), with shape α\alpha and rate β\beta, a light belief centered at 0.250.25 per page. A proofreader checks 10 pages and finds a total of 7 typos.

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

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