Question: Let X1, X2, . . ., Xn be Poisson random variables with parameter . Assume that has a Gamma (a, b) prior. (a) Compute

Let X1, X2, . . ., Xn be Poisson random variables with parameter λ. Assume that λ has a Gamma (a, b) prior.
(a) Compute the posterior distribution of λ.
(b) Obtain the Bayes estimate of λ.
(c) Compare the MLE of λ with the Bayes estimate of λ.
(d) Which of the two estimates is better? Why?

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