301.Which Coin After Three Heads
★★★conditional probabilityCitadel Securities
Coin A lands heads with probability 2/3 and coin B with probability 1/3. One of the two is chosen at random and flipped three times, coming up heads every time. What is the probability that it is coin A?
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The priors are equal, so only the relative likelihood of producing three heads matters.
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