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Bayes formula for a finite mixture with continuous observation
Example
Assume AC for Gaussian normalization and the cited analytic interfaces. Let , with prior and . Given J=j the observation has density , the law . Then a posterior probability of J=1 given Y=y is
It is defined for every real y. At it equals the prior probability .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The hypotheses and conventions in the example.
Normalize a supplied dominated likelihood against the prior. Bayes formula for dominated kernels.
The standard Gaussian density is positive and integrates to one under AC. The standard normal density has total mass one.
Normal location parameters refer to affine pushforwards of the standard law. Standard normal and normal laws.
AC supplies Gaussian normalization and countable-choice analytic bridges. The Axiom of Choice.
Each nonnegative likelihood density defines a measure. The indefinite integral of a nonnegative measurable function is a measure.
Translation substitutions hold for compact continuous Gaussian integrands. Substitution: if is differentiable on with integrable and is continuous on an interval containing , then .
Increasing compact intervals exhaust the nonnegative full-line integrals. Monotone convergence for the integral.
Compact continuous substitutions convert to Lebesgue integrals under countable choice. A bounded Riemann integrable function on a closed bounded interval is Lebesgue measurable and has the same integral.
CDFs uniquely identify real probability measures under countable choice. Probability laws correspond to distribution functions.
Verification
For j=0 the integral of is one by [F2]. For j=1, the translation has derivative one; [F6] with continuous outer phi, then [F8] and [F7] on increasing compact intervals, gives . The same calculation on gives , the CDF of the translated standard law [F3]. Therefore [F9] identifies it as . Both functions are positive measurable and finite. By [F5] they define probability likelihoods; measurability in the discrete parameter j is automatic because the parameter set is finite. The joint density is measurable since each of its two sections is, and the two slices are measurable. The declared AC [F4] covers all analytic choice assumptions.
Take prior on the two-point space and observation Lebesgue measure, which is sigma-finite. In [F1] the marginal density is and finite for every real y. Its total mass is by step 1.1. The posterior mass of {1} is therefore the first displayed ratio, and that of {0} is ; these sum to one. Dividing numerator and denominator by and computing gives the second ratio. At the exponential is one, so . For p=1/2, for example, and . Finally for every Borel B, , directly verifying the posterior event calculation.
Depends on
- Bayes formula for dominated kernels
- The standard normal density has total mass one
- Standard normal and normal laws
- The Axiom of Choice
- The indefinite integral of a nonnegative measurable function is a measure
- Substitution: if $\varphi$ is differentiable on $[c,d]$ with $\varphi'$ integrable and $f$ is continuous on an interval containing $\varphi([c,d])$, then $\int_{\varphi(c)}^{\varphi(d)} f = \int_c^d (f\circ\varphi)\,\varphi'$
- Monotone convergence for the integral
- A bounded Riemann integrable function on a closed bounded interval is Lebesgue measurable and has the same integral
- Probability laws correspond to distribution functions
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Sources
- Durrett, Probability: Theory and Examples, fifth edition (standard reference, not scraped)
- Varadhan, Probability Theory, Chapter 4 (standard reference, not scraped)