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For a new independent tumour grown for ten days in B, use $x_0=(1,10,10,0{)}^T$. Its fitted mean isWrite $h_0=x_0^T(X^{T}X{)}^{-1}{x}_0$. The prediction interval in a normal linear model iswhere $s^2=\mathrm{RSS}/26$ and $t_{26,1-\alpha /2}$ is the indicated Student's t-distribution quantile. The design information needed to evaluate $h_0$ is not supplied, so a fully numerical interval cannot be recovered from the coefficient standard errors alone: the coefficient covariances are also needed.

To prove coverage, write $Y_0=x_0^T\beta +{\epsilon }_0$, with ${\epsilon }_0\sim N(0,{\sigma }^2)$ independent of the original sample. The error $Y_0-x_0^T\hat{\beta }$ has a normal distribution with mean zero and variance ${\sigma }^2(1+h_0)$. By the joint distribution of least-squares and variance estimators, $26s^2/{\sigma }^2\sim {\chi }_{26}^2$ and is independent of $\hat{\beta }$; it is also independent of ${\epsilon }_0$. Hence the pivotal quantityConsequently $\mathrm{Pr}(-t_{26,1-\alpha /2}\le T\le t_{26,1-\alpha /2})=1-\alpha$, which is exactly the claimed prediction interval coverage. This is repeated-sampling coverage conditional on the design, assuming the model; it need not hold conditional on the particular observed training responses. The extra $1$ represents new-observation noise and must not be omitted as in a mean confidence interval.

Write the one-column design as $x\in {\mathbb{R}}^n\setminus \{0\}$ and $S=x^{T}x$. Maximizing the normal linear model likelihood first gives $\hat{\beta }=x^{T}Y/S$. Its minimized residual sum of squares is $R=\Vert Y-x\hat{\beta }{\Vert }^2$. For variance $v>0$, the remaining log likelihood is $-\frac{n}{2}\log v-R/(2v)$ plus a constant, whose maximum is atHere $R>0$ almost surely because $n>1$ and the true variance is positive. In the exceptional data case $R=0$, the likelihood is unbounded as $v\downarrow 0$, so there is no positive-variance maximum.

Let $P=x{x}^T/S$, the orthogonal projection matrix onto the design column. Then $\hat{\beta }-\beta =x^T\epsilon /S$ and $Y-x\hat{\beta }=(I-P)\epsilon$. These are orthogonal linear projections of an isotropic multivariate normal distribution, hence independent. An orthonormal coordinate system adapted to $x$ makes the residual squared length a sum of $n-1$ independent squared standard normals. Thus the joint distribution of least-squares and variance estimators is the product lawIn particular the maximum likelihood variance estimator is biased: $\mathbb{E}{\hat{\sigma }}^2=(n-1){\sigma }^2/n$; the unbiased residual estimator uses denominator $n-1$.