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Errata

Foundations and Applications of Statistics

Second Edition

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25 printed: tally(death ~ victim, data = DeathPenalty)
correct: tally(death ~ defendant, data = DeathPenalty)
Exercise 1.20 geyser is in the MASS package (see page 14). Use MASS::geyser to access this data set.
285 last line printed: 2nπ
correct: nπ
286 lines 9-10 printed: correct when π0=0 but overestimates … when π0>0 correct: correct when π0=1/2 but overestimates … when π01/2
331 The problem could be clarified to indicate that the first moment is not useful. The second moment could be used.
373 printed: W=2log(L(θ0)L(ˆθ))=2(log(ˆθ)log(θ0))I(ˆθ)(θ0ˆθ)2
correct: W=2log(L(θ0)L(ˆθ))=2(l(ˆθ)l(θ0))I(ˆθ)(θ0ˆθ)2
380 lines 6, 11, 13 printed: pnorm(), pchisq(), pchisq()
correct: qnorm(), qchisq(), qchisq().
388 printed: The assymptotic distribution of Λ
correct: The assymptotic distribution of W=2log(Λ)
389 printed: makLik
correct: maxLik
446 Exercise 5.18 printed: log of the odds ratio
correct: log of the odds
447 line 1 printed: poison
correct: Poisson
498 line 5 printed: internally studentized residuls
correct: internally studentized residuals
747 Exercise A.11 Unfortunately, the weatherData package has been removed from CRAN. Similar data now live in mosaicData::Weather, but the data for several cities are already contained in a single data frame, so there is no need to merge from multiple sources.