«
»

Typo in Biometrika 97(3): 747

Yesterday while in Philadelphia airport I got this email from Javier Rubio:

Prof. Robert,

I am a first year PhD student in the University of Warwick. I was reading your paper “Properties of nested sampling” which I found very interesting.  I have a question about it. Is the second equation in pp. 747 correct?
I think this equation is related with the first equation in pp. 12 from your paper “Importance sampling methods for Bayesian discrimination between embedded models”.
Kind regards,
Javier.

Indeed, there is a typo in that this formula (page 747) should be

\widehat{Z}_1=1\bigg/\left\{\dfrac{1}{T}\,\sum_{t=1}^T {g(\theta^{(t)}) }\big/\pi(\theta^{(t)})L(\theta^{(t)})\right\}

(I checked my LaTeX code and there is a trace of a former \dfrac that got erased but was not replaced with a \big/ symbol… I am quite sorry for the typo, the more because this paper went through many revisions.) There is no typo in the corresponding chapter of Frontiers of Statistical Decision Making and Bayesian Analysis: In Honor of James O. Berger

 

This entry was posted on November 4, 2010 at 1:03 pm and is filed under Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: