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Nice write up.

Little bit of a funny though: Note how num_tanks ~ Unif(max(captured),2000) was defined, so you already have p[ parameter | data ]. Isn't this already a posterior?

I get however how if you had the r.v.s num_tanks ~ Unif(M,2000), observed | num_tanks ~ Unif(1,num_tanks), M some constant, that you could find a posterior distribution num_tanks | vector<observed> by first finding the joint via E[ 1[num_tanks < t]P[observed | num_tanks] ]




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