Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2013 / iii / Paper 30 / 3 / c

The coefficient labelled yr2 identifies year as a factor. With $z_i=0$ in the first year and $z_i=1$ in the second, the Poisson regression assumes independent daily counts conditional on year,The unknown mean statistical parameters are the first-year log daily rate ${\beta }_0$ and the second-year log rate ratio ${\beta }_1$; the dispersion parameter is fixed at one. Approximate 95% Wald confidence intervals areExponentiating yields the first-year fitted daily mean $5.978$, with confidence interval $(5.732,6.234)$, andThe second-year fitted daily mean is $e^{1.78810-0.09816}=5.419$. Thus this Poisson regression estimates a 9.35% fall, with an approximate interval for the percentage fall from 3.66% to 14.70%. These confidence intervals rely on the Poisson distribution and independence assumptions.