Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / ib / Paper 4 / 17H / c / Solution

The uniform prior is the Beta distribution $\mathrm{Beta}(1,1)$. By Beta-binomial conjugacy, after observing $X$ heads the posterior isThe Bayes estimator under squared error loss is the posterior mean, hence

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