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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ii Paper 1 5J Solution by
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The inverse logit link is . independence therefore gives the Likelihood function and log-likelihoodDifferentiation yields the score . The matrix whose rows are has dimension , not the PDF's printed . With this necessary dimension correction, any finite maximum Likelihood function estimate satisfiesThe Hessian matrix is , with , so the log-likelihood is concave. These score equations apply to a finite interior estimate; complete or quasi-complete separation can instead make its supremum occur only as coefficients diverge.
The deviance is twice the difference between maximized saturated and fitted log-likelihoods. A saturated Bernoulli distribution has fitted means and log-likelihood zero, interpreted by limits. Hence the binomial deviance here isZero-multiplier logarithms are interpreted as zero.
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