Text Errata
A List of errors and typos in the book Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy
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Errata
Errors are listed by chapter, followed by page number.
Chapter 1
Page 35: Figure 1.13 is incorrectly labeled a Mercator projection. It's actually an Equirectangular projection (also known in WCS as a "Cartesian projection")
Chapter 2
Page 49: Second footnote of hadoop.apache.org?
Page 50: 8th element of list of seven strategies? Reads as a typo, rather than a bonus item.
Page 60: Eq. (2.7) less than sign should be greater than??
Chapter 3
Page 76: in Figure 3.3, the (1,1) and (2,2) cells are erroneously switched.
Page 99: The line below eq. (3.60) should say "Note that for k = 1 this distribution is a Cauchy distribution", not "k = 2"
Chapter 4
Page 126: The denominator of the argument of the exponential of Eq. (4.2) should be sigma squared, not sigma, to better match Eq. (3.43) and lead to Eq. (4.4).
Page 130: The denominator of the argument of the exponential of Eq. (4.11) should be sigma squared, not sigma, to better match Eq. (3.43) and lead to Eq. (4.13).
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
p. 437, figure 10.15: in the creation of this figure, the noise was not applied to the data before computing the periodogram. See a fuller discussion along with an updated figure on the astroML website