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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 207 3 b ii Solution by
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Neyman allocation optimizes information and may allocate more patients to the arm whose Bernoulli variance is nearer its maximum at . The ethical allocation instead favors the arm with higher response probability. They coincide only for special parameter values; in general ethical gain is purchased with some loss of precision relative to Neyman allocation.
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