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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 4 19H b Solution by
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Put for the unrestricted fit. Under , the best slope is still because the design is centered. Orthogonality of the residuals to the constant vector givesAt either fitted mean, the maximum-likelihood estimator of variance is . The ratio used by the generalized likelihood-ratio test is consequentlySmall likelihood ratios correspond to large . Under , part (a) gives independent and . Thus has the Student's t-distribution with degrees of freedom. The exact size-5% critical region iswhere is the 97.5th percentile of that distribution. The denominator uses the unbiased residual variance estimate, not the likelihood variance denominator .
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