Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-37/2/b/solution

Let be the premium at age , gender , policy , and points , for the combinations actually observed. The additive normal linear model is
Its corner-point constraints are . Thus is the reference-category mean; the other coefficients are additive contrasts. The model assumes a common variance and excludes all interactions. It has estimable mean parameters and residual degrees of freedom. The variance estimate is

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