Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Printed | Page 21 in the "Kernel Density Estimates" chapter |
In p21 of my copy, in the "Kernel Density Estimates" chapter of the book: |
Francois Berenger | Feb 14, 2019 |
Printed | Page 41 kde code listing |
The data file ch02_presidents used for the sample code needs to have the space in Van Buren removed....extra embedded space throws off column reading in loadtxt |
Steven Heller | Aug 04, 2013 |
Printed | Page 45 First line of the second block of code at the top of the page |
The comment is incorrect, the code prints the second and third rows, not columns. |
Jerome Boisvert-Chouinard | Jun 09, 2015 |
Printed | Page 52 Graph at top of page |
The graph is incorrect, it was generated with erroneous code (there is an error in the gaussian kernel calculation - see my submitted errata for page 73). |
Jerome Boisvert-Chouinard | Jun 09, 2015 |
Printed | Page 73 Code snippet at the bottom of the page |
The code for the LOESS function contains an error. The line: |
Jerome Boisvert-Chouinard | Jun 09, 2015 |
Page 97 3rd line from the bottom |
In the call to the correlate function, the longer array needs to be first and the shorter one second. The resulting array is 201 elements so I am not clear why you need the last line on page 97? |
Phillip Wilmarth | Feb 19, 2013 | |
Page 101 Figure 5-3 |
Image of figure 5-3, false-color plot does not appear on my iPod Touch (but does appear when viewing in Preview application). The front and back cover images also do not appear on my iPod Touch. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Doug Raines | Nov 18, 2010 | |
Printed | Page 106 Last line |
The sentence as is: "... the individual subplots become too small as that we could still recognize anything useful..." |
Yuliya Gorlina | Nov 10, 2011 |
Printed | Page 127 first and only footnote |
The StatLib URL http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/visualizing.data.zip to the zip file containing the Mauna Loa dataset does not appear to be valid any longer. |
Josef Assad | May 27, 2016 |
Page 253 2nd paragraph, 4th line |
The motivating example for naively calculating the average of averages reads: "Just adding up the individual defect rates per item and dividing by 3 (in effect, averaging them) did not seem right?if only because it would come out to about 0.75" |
Robert Iwatt | Jun 15, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 301-302 top of 301, fourth paragraph on 302 |
The definition of dot product is very non-standard. In my opinion that should be pointed out. |
Yuliya Gorlina | Nov 13, 2011 |