How is the effective parallel resistance of this resistor network determined?
Neither are accurate. yes it must include R4802, but the Zener control has high gain and the PNP has hFE so the negative feedback reduces your node effective input impedance.  ( such as if you were to inject noise from some Rs)
But since the Zener control current is small, it has negl. Loading effects. (Verify)
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