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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 221 1 iv Solution by
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Within the active set, cross-classify dosage against . Conditional on the vector , complete randomization assigns of the active patients to low dosage and to high dosage uniformly. Under independent assignment, active patients receive low and high dosage with conditional probabilitiesconditioning further on their low- and high-dose totals again gives the same uniform allocation. Under , active patients' outcomes are fixed as their common , so the conditional Fisher p-value obeys
Under , is a function only of and the fixed outcomes. Applying the law of iterated expectation under the joint null givesThis conditional argument explains the stated near-independence even though the two tests reuse outcomes.
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