by
James E. Gentle
Errata for Second Printing of First Edition
(see
errata for first printing)
Page 10, Figure 1.2: (Thanks to Tom Yost!)
Point 15 should be (22,4) and point 14 should be (28,22).
Page 10, line 10b:
One of the duplicated 12's should be omitted.
Page 10, line 4b: (Thanks to Tom Yost!)
The last number, 0.35, should be omitted.
Page 11, caption for Figure 1.3:
Multiplier should be 12.
Page 34, line 9: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
Should be ``... the difference between two discrete uniforms modulo
the
larger of the ranges of the two random variables is also a discrete
uniform.''
Page 49, line 8: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
Should be ``A good majorizing function would be such that $c$ is as
small as possible.
(The areas under $g$ and under $f$ are both 1.).''
Page 78, line 14: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
Instead of ``m(m-1)V/m'', should be ``(m-1)V/m''.
Page 83, line 6: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
Instead of ``nx + \beta - 1'', should be ``n - x + \beta - 1''.
Page 94, line 8b: (Thanks to Xiaohui Luo!)
``b = a + e^-ta/t'' should be ``b = 1 + e^-ta/t''.
Page 95, line 1: (Thanks to Xiaohui Luo!)
Should be a minus sign in from of log.
Page 95, last two lines:
``x'' should be ``y''.
Page 97, t density: (Thanks to Gonno Leendertse!)
There should be no ``$\sigma$'' in the expression for the density.
Page 98, line 9: (Thanks to James G. MacKinnon and to Gonno Leendertse!)
The r in the denominator should be taken from under the square root
sign.
Alternatively (and this is the way the computations should be
performed), ``r^2'' in lines 5 and 6 should be ``r''
(that is, r=v_1^2+v_2^) , and
the exponent of r
in the numerator under the square root sign should
be ``-2/\nu'', instead of ``-4/\nu''.
Page 99, line 26:
Should be ``... scaled by $\beta^{1/\alpha}$''.
Page 102, lines 29 through 31: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
The term in the denominator of the Rayleigh density should be
$1/\sigma^2$, and the parenthetical remark should be ``which is a
Weibull with parameters $\alpha=2$ and $\beta=2\sigma^2$''
Page 103, line 20:
``u_2'' should be in the denominator.
The full expression should be
x \leq \frac{t}{t-1}\frac{2^{a-1}-1}{2^{a-1}u_2}
Page 107, Algorithm 3.7, step 2: (Thanks to Zhenming Su and
to Jan-Thijs van Kaam!)
Should be ``For $i=1,2,\ldots,d$, generate independent
chi-squared variates, $y_i$,
with $n+1-i$ degrees of freedom.''
Page 111, lines 2 and 13: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
The limits on i and j should include all j when i<l, and
j<m when i=l.
Page 114, line 24: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
In the second instance, should be $\alpha_{22}-\alpha_{12}$.
Page 121, at end of second paragrpah: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
``n'' should be ``N''.
Page 127, line 2: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
``\lambda(t)'' ahould be ``\lambda(t_i+d)''
Page 153, line 12: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
``generator'' should be ``correlation''
Page 164, line 30: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
Should be 10 degrees of freedom.
Page 173, lines 14 and 15: (Thanks to Craig Borkowf!)
Should be ``xx <- sample(massp, n, replace=T, probs)''.
Page 174, line 9b: (Thanks to Juan Antonio Caballero!)
Should be 16/15 (which is 64/60, instead of 64/35)
Page 231: (Thanks to Juan Antonio Caballero!)
The date of Joe Schafer's book is 1997.
(Thanks also to Craig Borkowf and
Juan Antonio Caballero for several additional comments.)