8.15 As in Section 5.3.2, the exponential family is often presented as: f(w; ) = exp{(w ...

8.15 As in Section 5.3.2, the exponential family is often presented as:

f(w; θ) = exp{(wθ − b(θ))/a(φ) + c(w, φ)}, for specific functions, a( ), b( ) and c( ), and known parameter φ. Verify that this is identical to the canonical form of the expression of (8.4).