The Laplace integral method for a differential equation seeks
Differentiating under the integral and substituting into
gives
Since , integration by parts yields
It is therefore enough to choose and so that
and the boundary term vanishes. Solving the first-order equation on gives
Take to be the interval . Although has integrable endpoint singularities,
vanishes at both endpoints, so the boundary term is zero. Thus
At , substituting gives
The normalization therefore sets . By the defining regularity and normalization of the modified Bessel function, this proves the real integral representation of the modified Bessel function I0:
For a model with fitted parameters, the Akaike information criterion is
where is the log-likelihood evaluated at the maximum-likelihood estimate.
In the normal linear model with known ,
The maximum-likelihood estimator is the ordinary least-squares estimator, with fitted mean , where
Since only the components of are fitted,
After multiplying by and discarding the model-independent constant, this is exactly Mallows Cp:
To compare it with prediction error, write and , where , the two errors are independent, and both have covariance . Since , is an orthogonal projection of rank , and
The cross term has zero expectation, so
On the other hand,
Therefore the unbiased prediction-error identity for ordinary least squares gives

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