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Posterior distributions for the number of students in the school based on three prior distributions for the population size: flat, a prior median of 1000, and a prior median of 2000. The prior is dashed. The red mark is at the posterior median. The green mark is at the posterior mean. The blue lines are at the lower and upper bounds of the 95% highest-probability-density interval.
