Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2016/iii/paper-210/3/c/solution

Decompose using the incidence pseudoinverse decomposition. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality controls the constant component, and the duality of the and norms controls the remaining component:
On the stipulated event, the second term contributes at most after multiplication by . The triangle inequality gives , so the negative penalty in the basic inequality for a penalized least-squares estimator cancels. We obtain
on an event of probability at least .

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