STAT 350

Assignment 2

  1. In this problem you will prove that

    is a density.

    1. Let . Show that

      HINT: What is in terms of I.

    2. Now if

      do the double integral J in polar co-ordinates (, ) to show J=1.

    3. Deduce that is a density.

  2. Suppose are independent random variables, so that with independent standard normals.
    1. If and express X in the form AZ+b for a suitable matrix A and vector b.
    2. Show that X is and identify and .
    3. Let for i=1,2,3 and . Show that and find and .

  3. Working with partitioned matrices. Suppose that the design matrix X is partitioned as where has columns.
    1. Write as a partitioned (3 rows, 3 columns) matrix.
    2. A matrix

      is called block diagonal. Show that exists if and only if each exists and that then is block diagonal.

    3. Suppose that for i=1,2 and . Show that is block diagonal and give a formula for .
    4. Suppose is partitioned to conform with the partitioning of X (that is is a scalar and is a column vector of length for i=1,2. Let be obtained by fitting

      by least square, be obtained by fitting

      and similarly for . Let be the usual least squares estimate for

      Show that .

    5. Let be the vectors of fitted values corresponding to the estimates for i=1,2,3. Show that for we have .
    6. For the design matrix of the first assignment identify and and verify the orthogonality condition of this problem.
  4. Page 321. Problem 7.33 parts a, b, e and f, 7.34 and 7.35 part a.
DUE: Monday, 27 January





Richard Lockhart
Tue Jan 21 15:00:06 PST 1997