Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 207 6 b ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Under a country-specific constant hazard survival model, let be the number of deaths and the total person-time at risk in country . The likelihood is proportional toso the maximum-likelihood estimator is . Test by a likelihood-ratio test, score test, or Wald test; equivalently, give a Poisson distribution with mean and test the country coefficient in a Poisson regression with offset .