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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 218 1 a Solution by
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Write for the colony count and for the dose on plate . The first fit is the Poisson regressionThus its log-likelihood isThe Poisson deviance relative to the saturated model iswhere a summand with uses .
At dose zero the fitted expected value is eradicated colonies. Increasing dose by one unit multiplies the fitted mean by ; for example, an increase of units multiplies it by about . The positive fitted effect is small and its displayed two-sided -value, , gives little evidence against a zero dose coefficient.
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