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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 102 3 c Solution by
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Preserve the original row order and set for the first eight fixed-route providers and for the twelve on-demand providers. A suitable group comparison builds on a selected small predictor set :The model with pools service types; adding changes the baseline; adding selected components of allows different predictor dependence. Center at meaningful values so that compares groups at those values. The predictor-specific rate ratio is in the fixed-route group and in the on-demand group; the group ratio at predictor value is .
Fit common-slope and selected-interaction models, respecting model hierarchy by retaining corresponding main effects. Test the added interaction block jointly with a likelihood-ratio test, or an appropriate quasi-likelihood comparison under estimated dispersion, and check group-specific residual patterns and leave-one-provider sensitivity. Seven interactions plus all main effects would use 16 parameters for just twenty providers and leave only four residual degrees of freedom; an indiscriminate full interaction model is consequently a poor basis for stable inference.
The excerpt contains only , so neither the service-type effect nor any interaction is estimable from it. Full-data estimates could distinguish a baseline difference from genuinely different slopes, but the printed records cannot establish either conclusion.
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