ERRATA & MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
Chapter 3
p 110, Fig 3.1.8, caption (b) : "flatter lines" should read "flatter line"
Chapter 4
p 173, last paragraph: We have changed stories part way through. We did a calculation relating to barriermethods, talked about that probability as if it related to IUDs and then spent the rest of the story discussingIUDs.
Chapter 5
p 209, Example 5.3.3. Not really an error but a footnote that Minitab 12 will not handle this calculation buttyping =binomdist(89,151,0.5,true) in Excel, cf. Fig 5.3.2 p207, would be useful
Chapter 6
P 232, Fig 6.1.1, y-axis labels on (c ) and (d) are one tick too high -- (a) and (b) are correct.
Units in both figure and caption for Fig 6.1.1 should be "g/day" and not "mg/day"
The units should be changed in the same way in the text on pp 232-233 (it may surface in other places as well)
Chapter 7
P 287, Fig 7.2.5, numbers on x-axis in (b) and (c) are for sum -- change for average
Chapter 9
p 380, caption to Fig 9.3.1: reference should be to Table 9.3.1 (not 9.1.1)
pp 381, 389, Definitions of the p-value should say "at least as far
away from the hypothesized value as our data estimate" instead of "further
away". The distinction doesn't affect P-values based on continuous
distributions such as the
Chapter 10
p 437, 2nd line from bottom, "scan only" should read "map only"
p 431, "homosexual" on line 3 should read "heterosexual"
Chapter 12
p 538, "outliers in X" paragraph – Fig 12.4.13 plots should be labelled as Y vs X plots and in the 1st line of the para change "an X-value that shows up" to"an X-value that would show up"
page 541, property (ii) of r, at the end of the comment about negative values of r: "Y gets smaller as X gets smaller" , should be: "Y gets smaller as X gets larger".
[Last updated 1 April 2003.]