4.II.12H
Part IB, 2002
Explain what is meant by a prior distribution, a posterior distribution, and a Bayes estimator. Relate the Bayes estimator to the posterior distribution for both quadratic and absolute error loss functions.
Suppose are independent identically distributed random variables from a distribution uniform on , and that the prior for is uniform on .
Calculate the posterior distribution for , given , and find the point estimate for under both quadratic and absolute error loss function.