Bayesian Core
A Practical Approach to Computational
Bayesian
Statistics
J.-M.
Marin & Ch. P. Robert
Springer-Verlag
[site],
New York, 2007, ISBN
0-387-38979-2
Typos in the first printing, corrected in second printing
- In the R
code of Figure 1.1,
a log(3) on the rhs column should be a log(10) to coincide with the lhs
column. Similarly, in Figure
1.2, the first item produces a vector of 20 terms. At
last, in Figure 1.3,
the first command produces a vector with five, not three, values (Thanks to Soleiman).
- Similarly, the example on the syntax of while at
the top of page 13 should be while (expres1)
where expres1
is a boolean expression (Thanks
to Petri Koistinen).
- In Section 2.2.1,
at the bottom of page 19, the indicator
on θ should be an indicator on μ (Thanks to Fazlollah Lak).
- In the remark page 34, the reference on pseudo-Bayes
factors should be Robert (2001, Chapter 5) (Thanks to Fazlollah Lak).
- In Section 3.1.2,
in the formula right after Exercise
3.3, the summation term is superfluous, given the
matricial notation. But the X
matrix is missing in front of the β
(Thanks
to Dominik
Hangartner).
- In Section 3.2.1.,
in the data analysis on page 57, the variance involves a (2.1-1)2
rather than a (2.1-2)2 but the value
is correct (Thanks
to Dominik
Hangartner).
- In Exercise
4.12, yi is defined
as the indicator that zi is negative
and in Exercise
4.13, the conditions for properness cannot be expressed
only in terms of both sums
Σi yi and Σi (1-yi).
- In Section
5.2.3, at the bottom of page 129, π(N,P)
should
be π(N,p).
- On page 162, the permutation τ(θ,p) is missing the
pi's (Thanks
to Jarrett Barber)
- On top of page 163, there are two s12(z), instead
of s12(z) and s22(z) (Thanks
to Jarrett Barber)
- On Figure 6.7, the lower rhs graph is for the pair (σi,μi) not (σi,pi) (Thanks
to Jarrett Barber)
- On page 173, the squares [...]2
within the exponentials are missing the norm ||...||2
symbol (Thanks
to Jarrett Barber)
- Right after Exercise
6.18, there is a k1 in the denominator
of the birth
acceptance probability that should be a k+1 (Thanks to Hossein Gholami.)
- In Exercise
7.4, the Student's t
distribution is
with T-1
degrees of freedom and with a different value of νt
than the one proposed.
- In formula (7.4), Section
7.2.1, the sum involves xt-i not xt+1-i (Thanks to Hossein Gholami
and to
Jarrett Barber.)
- In Exercise
7.7, the prior 1/σ
must be understood as a prior
on σ,
not σ2
- In Exercise
7.8, the final sentence "Deduce that...."
should be removed.
- In Exercise
7.9, the lognormal proposal should have log(σt-12) as
its mean.
- Formula (7.10) is missing a minus sign after
εt .
- In Exercise
7.17, the definition of φr
involves x1:r-1,
not x1:t-1.
- On page 219, the g
is missing in the polyprobit model P(y=g|y)
(Thanks to Jarrett
Barber)
- In Chapter 8, the conditional distributions
(8.1) do not
lead to a joint distribution if the Nk(i) are different.
Rewrite (8.1) with Nk(i) being the
average number of neighbours
over all xi's. Same thing for
(8.2). (Then Exercise 8.5
can be
solved!)
- On page 222, the pg on the last line should be a pG, but
this is unrelated with parental guidance! (Thanks to Jarrett Barber)
- On page 224, the uniform proposal is on the 2r neighbours of k, not the r neighbours (Thanks to Jarrett
Barber)
- On page 225, for the vision dataset, the Metropolis-Hastings chain concentrates on k=6, not k=5 (Thanks to Jarrett
Barber)
- In Exercise
8.6, the
condition on
the support of π
is unclear. It should be phrased as "If a joint density π(y1,...,yn)
is such that the
conditionals π(y-i|yi)
never cancel on the supports of the marginals m-i(y-i), show that the
support of π is
equal to the cartesian product of the supports of the marginals."
- In Exercise 8.10, the
indices are not right: it should read as xij with (i+j) = 0(2)
conditional on xij with (i+j) = 1(2)
- On pages 237 and 239,
including
(8.8), the double summations should reduce to a single summation on the
(i,j)'s such that i~j.
These
errors are
corrected in
the second
printing of the
book.
Last updated ,July 14, 2007
© Christian P. Robert