Paper 2, Section I, J

Statistical Modelling
Part II, 2017

A statistician is interested in the power of a tt-test with level 5%5 \% in linear regression; that is, the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis β0=0\beta_{0}=0 with this test under an alternative with β0>0\beta_{0}>0.

(a) State the distribution of the least-squares estimator β^0\hat{\beta}_{0}, and hence state the form of the tt-test statistic used.

(b) Prove that the power does not depend on the other coefficients βj\beta_{j} for j>0j>0.