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A conditional probability distribution of a random
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[[A priori distribution|a priori distribution]].
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be a random parameter with an a priori density
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be the conditional density of
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a0100305.png">
 
when
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a0100306.png">;
 
then the a posteriori distribution of
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a0100307.png">
 
for a given
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a0100308.png"></html>,
 
according to the
 
[[Bayes formula|Bayes formula]],
 
has the density
 
<html><table class="eq" style="width:100%;">
 
<tr><td valign="top" style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a0100309.png"></td>
 
</tr></table></html>
 
If
 
<html><img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003010.png"></html>
 
is a
 
[[Sufficient statistic|sufficient statistic]]
 
for the family of distributions with densities
 
<html><img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003011.png">,
 
then the a posteriori distribution depends not on
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003012.png">
 
itself, but on
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003013.png">.
 
The asymptotic behaviour of the a posteriori distribution
 
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as
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003015.png">,
 
where
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003016.png">
 
are the results of independent observations with density
 
<img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003017.png">,</html>
 
is
 
&#160;"almost independent"&#160;
 
of the a priori distribution of
 
<html><img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/a/a010/a010030/a01003018.png"></html>.
 
 
 
 
 
For the role played by a posteriori distributions
 
in the theory of statistical decisions, see
 
[[Bayesian approach|Bayesian approach]].
 
 
 
todo
 

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  • navigation
    • mainpage|mainpage-description
    • Special:Allpages|Pages A-Z
    • :Category:Statprob|StatProb Collection
    • recentchanges-url|recentchanges
    • currentevents-url|currentevents
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