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Part II, 2017
A statistician is interested in the power of a -test with level in linear regression; that is, the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis with this test under an alternative with .
(a) State the distribution of the least-squares estimator , and hence state the form of the -test statistic used.
(b) Prove that the power does not depend on the other coefficients for .