Suppose that a random sample of size 20 is taken from a normal distribution with unknown mean and known variance equal to 1, and the mean is found to be i = 10. A normal distribution was used as the prior for the mean, and it was = found that the posterior mean was 15 and the posterior standard deviation was 0.1. What were the mean and standard deviation of the prior

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Section13.2: Expected Value And Variance Of Continuous Random Variables
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Suppose that a random sample of size 20 is taken from a normal distribution with unknown mean and known variance equal to 1, and the mean is found to be i = 10. A normal distribution was used as the prior for the mean, and it was = found that the posterior mean was 15 and the posterior standard deviation was 0.1. What were the mean and standard deviation of the prior?

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