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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ii Paper 3 5L Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
In a linear model containing an intercept, the normal equations make the residual vector orthogonal to every design column. In particular , soup to floating-point rounding.
The second design matrix has random Gaussian columns plus the intercept, hence is a random matrix. It has full rank with probability one because the determinant vanishes only on a measure-zero algebraic set. Its column space is then all of , so the fitted vector equals , the residual sum of squares is zero, and .
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