Probability Theory – E. T. Jaynes
Errors, Typos and Comments (Compiled by Arnold Baise). Updated June 2017.
Chapter 1
Page 11 : In (1.12): “Duality” should be “de Morgan’s Laws”.
Chapter 2
Page 27 : fifth line after equation (2.13): “proof fills 11 pages” should be “proof fills 12 pages”.
Page 33 : first complete paragraph, second line: “Aczél (1966) derives the same result” is
incorrect, there is no derivation in the referenced book. It is derived, however, in:
Aczél, J. (1963), ‘Remarks on Probable Inference’, Annales Universitatis Scientiarum
Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, Sectio Mathematica 6, 3–11.
Page 71 : seventh line from the top: “Chapter 7” should be “Chapter 6”.
Chapter 4
Page 113: third line from the bottom: “calling σ the ‘variance of f’” should be “calling σ2 the
‘variance of f’”.
Page 115: second paragraph, second line: “subset 1  ” should be “subset 1  ”.
Chapter 5
Page 133: second paragraph, seventh line: “Cantrell” should be “Cantril”.
Page 137: tenth line from the bottom: “a statisticians’…test” should be “a statistician’s…test”.
Chapter 6
Page 155: second complete paragraph: reference is made to the work of C. D. Broad but no
reference is given. See:
Broad, C. D. (1918), ‘The Relation Between Induction and Probability (Part I)’, Mind
27, 389–404; Part II in Mind 29, 11–45 (1920).
Page 170: fifth line from the bottom: “Figure 4.3” should be “Figure 4.2”.
Page 177: last line of Exercise 6.5: “Takacs” should be “Takács”.
Page 182: second complete paragraph, seventh line: “Uniquely” should be “uniquely”.
Page 194: equation (6.169), second line: a1 should be α1 and a0 should be α0 on the next line.
Chapter 7
Page 205: no reference given to the Landon derivation:
Landon, V. D. (1941), ‘The distribution of amplitude with time in fluctuation noise’,
Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 29, 50–55.
Page 215: first complete paragraph, first line: “de Groot and Goel (1980)” should be “Goel and
de Groot (1980)”. See correction on p. 687.
Page 223: footnote 18: “Lighthill (1957)” should be “Lighthill (1958)”. See correction on p. 697.
Page 229: first paragraph after Exercise 7.8, second line: Einstein (1905a,b) refers to papers on
relativity, but should refer to his paper on Brownian motion. See correction on p. 688.
Chapter 8
Page 246: equation (8.13): in the denominator p(D|μI) should be p(D|μσI).
Page 246: equation (8.1): (8.1) should be (8.14).
1
1
Page 246: equation (8.1): - 2 should be - 2
2σ
σ
Page 247: first line after equation (8.16): “are the sample mean, … respectively.” should come
after equation (8.15).
Page 247: equation (8.16): p(u|I) should be p(μ|I).
Page 247: equation (8.16): ( x - μ) should be ( x - μ)2.
Page 247: second line after equation (8.16): s 2 should be σ2.
Page 250: equation (8.24): f(x1,…, xn|,) should be f(x1,…, xn|).
Page 252: first complete paragraph, line 5: “which again takes note” should be “which again
takes no note”.
Page 257: last line: 1904 should be 1902. See correction on p. 698.
Page 259: equation (8.63): p(AB|I) should be p(AB|HI).
Page 260: tenth line from the bottom: “Table 8.1.In which” should be “Table 8.1, in which”.
Page 267: footnote 8: “Jaynes (1985e)” should be “Jaynes (1985)”.
Chapter 9
Page 280: last paragraph, second line: “any set of m finite real numbers” should be “any finite set
of m real numbers”.
Page 281: equation (9.18): for consistency (G|n, I0) should be (G|nI0).
Page 285: section 9.7, third line: “R  U” should be “R  U”.
Page 301: first complete paragraph, tenth line: (9.57) should be (9.82).
Chapter 10
Page 328: sixth line from the bottom: reference 1986d should be 1986c, reference 1992a should
be 1992.
Page 335: footnote 5: “K. Pearson, 1980” should be “K. Pearson, 1970”, and 1970 should be
1906, see correction on p. 698.
Page 335: footnote 5: reference “Czuber, 1908” is listed in the Bibliography section, it should be
in the References section.
Chapter 11
Page 353: footnote: refers to the entropy concentration theorem, but the theorem is not given
later. For a proof of the theorem, see:
Jaynes, E.T. (1979), ‘Concentration of distributions at entropy maxima’, in
Rosenkrantz, R.D., ed., E.T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical
Physics, pp. 315-336.
Jaynes, E.T. (1982), ‘On the rationale of maximum-entropy methods’, Proc. IEEE 70,
939-952.
Page 357: first line: “after we done it” should be “after we’ve done it”.
Page 371: last line: Jaynes (1992b) is not in the References or Bibliography sections. In the
original online version of the manuscript, Jaynes (1992b) was given as:
Jaynes, E.T. (1992b), “The Gibbs Paradox”, in Proceedings of the 11’th Annual
MAXENT Workshop, Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Seattle, 1991, C. R.
Smith & G. Ericksen, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Holland; pp. 1–21. There
is no paradox; Gibbs explained it all in his early work on Heterogeneous Equilibrium,
but this was missed by later readers who examined only his Statistical Mechanics. The
range of valid applications of classical thermodynamics is far greater for one who
understands this. Note a misprint: the text equation preceding Eq. (14) should be:
f(1) = log(Ck3/2).
Chapter 12
Page 374: section 12.2, first line: “the, discrete” should be “the discrete”.
Page 378: third line from the top: “has just this mollusk-like quality” should be “had just this
mollusk-like quality”.
Page 378: eighth line from the top: “Fraser (1966)” should be “Fraser (1961)”. See correction on
p. 689.
Page 380: last line, (a1, b2) should be (a1, b1).
Page 385: tenth line from the bottom: p(d|r, n) should be p(d|rn).
Chapter 13
Page 399: second line after equation (13.3): “Laplace (1814, 1819)” should be “Laplace (1814, p.
22)”. See correction on p. 696. The page number is from the Truscott-Emory
translation, Dover Publications (1951). A more recent translation of the 5th French
edition of 1825 by Andrew I. Dale, Springer-Verlag, New York (1995) gives the
following for the quoted passage:
Indeed, it is clear that one franc has much greater value for him who has only a
hundred than for a millionaire. One ought then to distinguish the absolute value of an
expected benefit from its relative value. The latter is governed by motives that make it
desirable, whereas the former is independent of them. It is not possible to give a
general principle for estimating this relative value: however, here is one proposed by
Daniel Bernoulli, which may be useful in many cases. The relative value of an
infinitely small sum is equal to its absolute value divided by the total wealth of the
interested party.
Page 400: second paragraph, last line: the example described is on p. 95 of Savage’s book
“Foundations of Statistics”, second revised edition of 1972.
Page 414: equation (13.32): “x1,…, xnI” should be “x1,…, xn, I”.
Page 414: second line after equation (13.32): (α2 - α2) should be (α2 - α2).
Page 414: second line after equation (13.33): “x1,…, xnI” should be “x1,…, xn, I”.
Chapter 14
Page 432: fourth line from the top: “ideal observer theory” is described by Arnold Siegert in
section 7.5 of the book “Threshold Signals”, ed. James L. Lawson and George E.
Uhlenbeck, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950. Siegert writes that “the ideal observer
theory is practically identical with the Neyman-Pearson theory of the best criterion for
testing a statistical hypothesis”.
Chapter 15
Page 461: equation (15.28): p(A|xnI) should be p(A|DnI), and p( A |xnI) should be p( A |DnI).
Page 467: section 15.7, sixth line: “with variance unity” should be “with variance unity and
mean zero”.
Page 470: tenth line from the bottom, “than any, other” should be “than any other”.
Page 483: second paragraph, third line: “ H” should be “ H”.
Page 483: third paragraph, second line: “ H” should be “ H”.
Chapter 16
Page 493: third line from the top: “e.g. 1933” should be “e.g. 1934b”. See correction on p. 689.
Page 498: third complete paragraph, first line: “Fisher (1933)” should be “Fisher (1934b)”. See
correction on p. 689.
Chapter 17
Page 513: footnote 2: “indavertantly” should be “inadvertently”.
2
2
Page 513: footnote 2: m 2 (c – c*) should be m 2 (c – ĉ).
Page 513: footnote 2: M 2 (c – c2)2 should be m 2 (c – ĉ)2.
Page 518: section 17.4, first line: “Frechét” should be “Fréchet”.
Page 530: exercise 17.3(b): “integral over u” should be “integral over μ”.
Page 543: first line after equation (17.121): (17.92) should be (17.91).
Page 545: equation (17.134): minus sign missing before the argument in the exponential.
2
2
Chapter 18
Page 554: fourth line from the bottom: “symbol p” should be “symbol P”.
Page 564: third complete paragraph, first line: (1812) should be (1814, p. 19). The quote is from
Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités, first published in 1814 as the Introduction to
the 2nd edition of Théorie Analytique des Probabilités. The page number is from the
Truscott-Emory translation, Dover Publications (1951). A more recent translation of
the 5th French edition of 1825 by Andrew I. Dale, Springer-Verlag, New York (1995)
gives the following for the quoted passage:
But this number would be incomparably greater for one who, perceiving in the
coherence of phenomena the principle regulating days and seasons, sees that nothing
at the present moment can check the sun’s course.
Page 569: equation (18.30): pk as a subscript for A should be pK.
Page 569: equation (18.31): dpk should be dpK.
Page 569: equation (18.36): “pk - r” should be “pK - r”.
Page 571: fifth line from the top: “Carnap (1942)” should be “Carnap (1952)”.
Page 576: sixth line from the end of the second paragraph: “advocates” should be “advocate”.
Page 577: equation (18.59): subscript k should be K (6 occurrences).
Page 577: second line after equation (18.59): fk should be fK (2 occurrences).
Page 577: equation (18.60): nk should be nK.
Page 578: second line after (18.65): “P(B|Ap) = P(B|Ap)” should be “P(B|Ap) = P(B|Af)”.
Page 578: equation (18.66): subscript k should be K (5 occurrences).
Page 581: equation (18.71): Fm should be Fn.
Chapter 19
Page 590: third equation of (19.3):
should be
.
Page 593: line before equation (19.14): {x1,…, xN} should be {x1,…, xn}.
Page 594: equation (19.16), second line: xixk should be xjxk .
Chapter 20
Page 607: fourth complete paragraph, second line: “ n” should be “ n” and “ n+1”
should be “ n+1”.
Page 609: equation (20.17): x should be x 2 .
Page 612: equation (20.31): the denominator in the equation for ̂ should have x 2 enclosed in
parentheses.
Page 613: exercise 20.2, last line: “will model M2 will be favored” should be “will model M2 be
favored”.
Chapter 21
Page 623: equation (21.21): for consistency h(, u|I) should be h(, u|, I).
Page 623: fourth line after equation (21.21): “to put in it words” should be “to put it in words”.
Page 624: second line before equation (21.24): “scanning (21.24)” should be “scanning (21.17)”.
Chapter 22
Page 630: second line from the top: reference to the concentration theorem in Chapter 11, but the
theorem is not covered in that chapter. See correction on p. 353.
Page 630: first line after equation (22.6): Ni  0 should be ni  0.
Page 630: last line: “Schrödinger (1948)” should be “Schrödinger (1946)”. See correction on
p. 701.
Page 633: line before equation (22.20): “Chapter 8” should be “Chapter 9”.
Page 633: second line after equation (22.23): “Chapter 8” should be “Chapter 9”.
Page 647: first line: “from an eigenvector” should be “form an eigenvector”.
Appendix A
Page 652: fourth line from the top: {f1 … fn } should be {f1, …, fn }.
Page 652: fifth line from the top: Σ i should be Σ j .
Appendix B
Page 668: first line of second paragraph: “Lighthill (1957)” should be “Lighthill (1958)”. See
correction on p. 697.
Page 670: sixth line from the bottom: 1909 should be 1908. See correction on p. 699.
Page 671: footnote 7: “footnote 9 on p. 521” should be “footnote 10 on p. 522”.
References
Page 683: Andrews & Mallows: “Andrews, D. R.” should be “Andrews, D. F.”
Page 683: Barnard (1947): “Significance test” should be “Significance tests”.
Page 683: Bayes: “An essay toward” should be “An essay towards”.
Page 684: Bean: “Henry Schumann” should be “Henry Schuman”.
Page 684: Bell: “Men and Mathematics” should be “Men of Mathematics”.
Page 684: Bernoulli, D. (1738): “in Bernoulli, D. (1730–1),” should be removed. Comment
should be Comment. (abbreviation of Commentarii).
Page 684: Bernoulli (1777): Biometrika volume 45 should be 48.
Page 684: Birnbaum: “On the foundation” should be “On the foundations”.
Page 685: Borel (1924): “A propos” should be “À propos”, “traitè” should be “traité”, and
“probabilities” should be “probabilités”.
Page 685: Boring: third line of comment, “one canot prove” should be “one cannot prove”.
Page 685: Bortkiewicz (1898): “L. V.” should be “L. von”.
Page 685: Bortkiewicz (1913): “L. V.” should be “L. von”.
Page 685: Box (1978): Joan Fisher Box wasn’t “the youngest daughter of R.A. Fisher.” She was
the second of six daughters. See Plate 11 in her biography of Fisher.
Page 686: Cheeseman: third line of comment, “The situation is desribed” should be “The
situation is described”.
Page 686: Cournot: “Theorie” should be “Théorie”.
Page 686: Craig: “Daniel Titus” should be “Daniel Titius”.
Page 687: Dawkins: fifth line of comment, “Dawkins’ enthusiasm seem to outrun” should be
“Dawkins’ enthusiasm seems to outrun”.
Page 687: de Finetti (1937): “La prevision” should be “La prévision”.
Page 687: de Groot & Goel: should be “Goel & de Groot”.
Page 688: de Morgan (1847): “Taylor & Watton” should be “Taylor & Walton”.
Page 688: Dyson: “Lighthill (1957)” should be “Lighthill (1958)”. See correction on p. 697.
Page 688: Dyson: volume 11 should be 11(6).
Page 688: Edwards (1991): Reference should be ‘Bayesian reasoning in science’, Nature 352,
386–387.
Page 688: Einstein (1905b): “energy contend” should be “energy-content”.
Page 688: Einstein (1905a) and (1905b). See error on page 229. The reference should be to
Einstein’s paper on Brownian motion:
Einstein, A. (1905), ‘On the movement of small particles suspended in stationary
liquids required by the molecular-kinetic theory of heat’, Ann. Phys. 17, 549–560.
Page 688: Elias: journal should be IRE Trans. Information Theory.
Page 688: Ellis (1842): 1842 should be 1844. The paper was read before the Cambridge
Philosophical Society in 1842, but not published until 1844. In the title “theory of
probability” should be “theory of probabilities”. Reference should be Trans. Camb.
Phil. Soc. 8, 1–6.
Page 688: Euler: “Inégalitiés” should be “Inégalités”, and “l’Anneé” should be “l’Année”.
Page 688: Feinberg & Hinkley (1980): “Feinberg” should be “Fienberg”. 1980 should be 1989.
“2nd edn” should be “2nd printing”. First and fifth lines of comment: 1979 should be
1980, the year of publication of the 1st printing.
Page 689: Fisher (1933): this paper was published in 1934, reference should be “Fisher, R. A.,
(1934b)”. Error repeated on pp. 493, 498, 694. Journal should be Proc. Roy. Soc.
London A.
Page 689: Fisher (1934): 1934 should be 1934a.
Page 689: Fisher (1962): “determination of probability” should be “determination of
probabilities”.
Page 689: Fraser (1966): 1966 should be 1961. See error on p. 378.
Page 690: Galilei: “MacMillan” should be “Macmillan”.
Page 690: Gardner (1981): last line of comment, “Huber (1992)” should be “Huber (1991)”. See
correction on p. 693.
Page 690: Geisser & Cornfield (1963): “Posterior distribution” should be “Posterior
distributions”.
Page 690: Gell-Mann: volume 7 should be 7(1).
Page 690: Glymour: page numbers 25–99 should be 95–99.
Page 691: Gödel: “unendscheidbare” should be “unentscheidbare”.
Page 692: Hardy: “MacLearin’s test” should be “Maclaurin’s test”.
Page 692: Harr: “Harr” should be “Haar”, journal should be Ann. Math.
Page 693: Huber (1992): “Huber, P.J.” should be “Huber, P.W.” Publication date 1992 should
be 1991.
Page 693: Jaynes (1956): 1956 should be 1959.
Page 693: Jaynes(1963a): book title should be Engineering Applications of Random Function
Theory and Probability.
Page 693: Jaynes (1963b): “in K.W. Ford, ed., Statistical Physics” should be replaced by
“Brandeis University Summer Institute in Theoretical Physics (1962), Statistical
Physics”.
Page 693: Jaynes (1978): 1978 should be 1979.
Page 693: Jaynes (1983): book title should be E.T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and
Statistical Physics. “second paperbound edition” is actually a reprint of the first
edition.
Page 694: Jaynes (1986a): book title should be Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in
Applied Statistics.
Page 694: Jaynes (1986b): book title should be Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in
Applied Statistics.
Page 694: Jaynes (1987): “Smith, R.C.” should be “Smith, C.R.”
Page 694: Jeffreys (1932): journal should be Proc. Roy. Soc. London A.
Page 694: Jeffreys (1932): last line of comment, “Fisher (1933)” should be “Fisher (1934b)”. See
correction on page 689.
Page 695: Johnson (1932): reference should be ‘Probability: The Deductive and Inductive
Problems’, Mind 41, 409–423.
Page 695: Justice: book title should be Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Applied
Statistics.
Page 695: Keynes (1936): “beschuftigung” should be “beschäftigung”.
Page 696: Koopman: page numbers 399–509 should be 399–409.
Page 696: Laplace (1781): “Memoire” should be “Mémoire”.
Page 696: Laplace (1814, 1819): (1814, 1819) should be (1814). 1819 is the date of the 4th
edition of the Essai Philosophique, but the Truscott–Emory translation is of the 6th
edition. A more recent translation of the 5th French edition of 1825 is by Andrew I.
Dale, Springer-Verlag, New York (1995). Dale indicates (p. 225) that the 5th and 6th
editions are identical.
Page 697: Lighthill (1957): 1957 should be 1958. Error repeated on pp. 223, 668, 688, 702.
Page 697: Little & Rubin: “Little, J.F.” should be “Little, R.J.A.”
Page 697: McClave should come after Maxwell.
Page 697: Maxwell: reference should be ‘Illustrations of the dynamical theory of gases. Part I.
On the motions and collisions of perfectly elastic spheres’, Phil. Mag., Series 4, 19,
19–32.
Page 698: Molina: book title should be Facsimiles of Two Papers by Bayes.
Page 698: Morris: book title should be Optimal Strategies in Sports.
Page 698: Pearson, E.S. (1967): “Some reflections” should be “Some reflexions”. Years 1890–94
should be 1885–1920.
Page 698: Pearson & Clopper: should be “Clopper & Pearson”, and “confidence in fiducial
limits” should be “confidence or fiducial limits”.
Page 698: Pearson, K. (1970): see error on page 335. This reference should be:
Pearson, K. (1906), ‘Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 1860–1906’, Biometrika 5, 1–52.
Reprinted in Pearson & Kendall (1970).
Page 698: Poincaré (1904): book was published in 1902 with title La Science et l’Hypothèse.
English translation as Science and Hypothesis.
Page 699: Poincaré (1909): 1909 should be 1908.
Page 700: Rempe, Walter & Klein: title of paper is ‘Observation of quantum collapse and revival
in a one-atom maser’.
Page 700: Savage, I.R. (1961): “Tchebyscheff” should be “Tchebycheff”.
Page 700: Savage, L.J. (1961): publisher is University of California Press. Page numbers are
575–586.
Page 701: Schrödinger (1948): 1948 should be 1946.
Page 701: Schuster: sixth line: “exist?” should be “exist”.
Page 701: Shewhart: “Manufactured Products” should be “Manufactured Product”.
Page 701: Sims: Jaynes indicates unit root hypotheses are discussed in Ch. 17, but there is no
discussion.
Page 701: Stigler (1986b): there are two consecutive papers by Stigler:
‘Laplace's 1774 Memoir on Inverse Probability’, Stat. Sci. 1, 359–363.
‘Memoir on the Probability of the Causes of Events’, Stat. Sci. 1, 364–378.
Page 701: Stigler (1986c): book title should be The History of Statistics: the Measurement of
Uncertainty before 1900.
Page 701: Stone (1965): “Harr measure” should be “Haar measure”. Reference should be Ann.
Math. Stat. 36, 440–453.
Page 702: Stone (1979): 1979 should be 1982. Publisher should be North-Holland, Amsterdam.
Page 702: Takacs: “Takacs” should be “Takács”.
Page 702: Titchmarsh (1937): “Lighthill (1957)” should be “Lighthill (1958)”. See correction on
p. 697.
Page 702: van Dantzig: volume 2 should be 11.
Page 702: Venn: “MacMillan” should be “Macmillan”.
Page 703: von Mises (1964) is not referred to in the text. On page 386, second paragraph from
the bottom, the reference to “von Mises (1957)” was a reference to “von Mises 1957
and 1964” in the original article by Jaynes (1973b). Pages 160–166 in von Mises
(1964) cover the water/wine and Buffon needle problems.
Page 704: Wrinch & Jeffreys: title of paper is ‘On some aspects of the theory of probability’.
Bibliography
Page 705: Ash (1966): 1966 should be 1965. “Ash, B.B.” should be “Ash, R.B.”
Page 705: Barlow & Proschan: “Barlow, E.R.” should be “Barlow, R.E.”
Page 705: Barndorf-Nielsen: “Barndorf-Nielsen” should be “Barndorff-Nielsen”.
Page 705: Barr and Feigenbaum: “Kaufman” should be “Kaufmann”.
Page 705: Bernardo (1977): “Barra, J.D.” should be “Barra, J.R.”
Page 705: Bernado (1979a): “Bernado” should be “Bernardo”.
Page 705: Bernado (1979b): “Bernado” should be “Bernardo”.
Page 706: Bernado (1980): “Bernado” should be “Bernardo”.
Page 706: Bernado (1985): “Bernado” should be “Bernardo”.
Page 706: Blanc-Lapierre & Fortet: “Theorie” should be “Théorie”, and “Aleatoires” should be
“Aléatoires”.
Page 706: Borel: full title is Traité du calcul des probabilités et des ses applications.
Page 706: Boscovich: “Geographique” should be “Géographique”. “N.M. Tillard” should be
“N.M. Tilliard”.
Page 706: Brown & Duren: “Brown, E.E” should be “Brown, D.E.” Title of paper should be
‘Conflicting information integration for decision support’. “Volume 4,(2)” should be
“Volume 2(4)”.
Page 706: Carnap: “Routlege” should be “Routledge”.
Page 707: Cook should come before Cooley.
Page 707: Creasy: pages 175–185 should be 186–194.
Page 707: Daganzo (1977): 1977 should be 1979.
Page 708: Davenport & Root: “Davenport, W.S.” should be “Davenport, W.B.” Book title
should be An Introduction to the Theory of Random Signals and Noise.
Page 708: de Finetti: since there are four volumes in a series, title should be Philosophy in the
Mid-Century, Vol. 1.
Page 708: de Groot, Bayarri & Kadane: should be “Bayarri, de Groot & Kadane”.
Page 708: de Groot & Cyert: should be “Cyert & de Groot”.
Page 708: Dubois & Prade: book title should be Possibility Theory: An Approach to
Computerized Processing of Uncertainty.
Page 708: Dutta: title of paper should be ‘On maximum (information-theoretic) entropy
estimation’.
Page 708: Edwards (1992): 1992 should be 1991. Title of paper is ‘Bayesian reasoning in
science’. This entry also appears in the References section, p. 688.
Page 708: Efron (1979a): “volume 6” should be “volume 7”.
Page 708: Evans: reference should be: Evans, M.K. (1969), Macroeconomic Activity: Theory,
Forecasting, and Control, Harper & Row, New York.
Page 708: Fechner (1860): “Fechner, G.J.” should be “Fechner, G.T.”
Page 709: Fechner (1882): “Fechner, G.J.” should be “Fechner, G.T.”
Page 709: Fisher (1930): “Inverse probabilities” should be “Inverse probability”.
Page 709: Fougeré: “Fougeré” should be “Fougere”.
Page 709: Galton (1863): “MacMillan” should be “Macmillan”.
Page 709: Galton (1889): “MacMillan” should be “Macmillan”.
Page 709: Gnedenko & Kolmogorov: first line of comment, “epistomologic” should be
“epistemologic”.
Page 710: Grenander & Szegö: “Szegö” should be “Szegő”. Publication date 1957 should be
1958.
Page 710: Gull & Daniell (1980): should be “Daniell & Gull”. Reference should be IEE
Proceedings E, 127, 170–172.
Page 710: Hacking (1973): 1973 should be 1975.
Page 710: Hampel: journal should be Zeit. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw. Gebiete.
Page 710: Hobson & Cheung : “Cheung” should be “Cheng”.
Page 711: Jaynes (1973a): book title should be Coherence and Quantum Optics: Proceedings
Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics. Publisher “Pergamon
Press” should be “Plenum Press”.
Page 711: Jaynes (1981): reference should probably be Proceedings of the First ASSP Workshop
on Spectral Estimation.
Page 711: Jaynes (1984): “SIAM – AMS Proceedings” should be: “McLaughlin, D.W., ed.,
Inverse Problems: SIAM – AMS Proceedings”.
Page 711: Jaynes (1985b): first line of comment, “the failure of previous efforts … were due to”
should be “the failure of previous efforts … was due to”.
Page 712: Jaynes (1991): “Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods” should be in italics.
Page 712: Jeffreys (1992): next to last line of comment, “Mistress” should be “Vice-Mistress”.
Page 712: Johnson: “IT-7, 641–650” should be “IT-25, 709–716”.
Page 712: Kale: “maximum likelihood estimation” should be “maximum likelihood estimator”.
Page 713: Kiefer & Wolfowitz: “maximum likelihood estimation” should be “maximum
likelihood estimator”.
Page 713: Kindermann & Snall: “Snall” should be “Snell”. Book title should be Markov Random
Fields and their Applications.
Page 713: Legendre: “methods” should be “methods”, and “cométes” should be “comètes”.
Page 713: Lessard (1989): 1989 should be 1990.
Page 713: Lindley (1956): “Ann. Math.” should be “Ann. Math. Stat.”
Page 713: Lindley (1971): “Mathemathics” should be “Mathematics”.
Page 713: Litterman (1985): 1985 should be 1986. “Zellner, A. & Goel, P.” should be “Goel, P.
& Zellner, A.”
Page 713: Macdonald: third line of comment, “Icthus” should be “Ichthus”.
Page 713: Mandelbrot: title should be Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension.
Page 713: Martin & Thompson: “Thompson” should be “Thomson”.
Page 714: Masani: “Masani” should be “Makani”.
Page 714: Maxwell: “W. Garrett” should be “W. Garnett”. Publication year 1881 should be
1882.
Page 714: McColl (1897): 1897 should be 1877. Title of paper should be ‘The calculus of
equivalent statements and integration limits’.
Page 714: McFadden (1973): 1973 should be 1974.
Page 714: Mitler: “Mitler” should be “Miller”. Publisher should be R. E. Krieger Pub. Co.,
Huntington, N.Y.
Page 714: Newton: “Philosophia Naturalis” should be “Philosophiae Naturalis”.
Page 714: Neyman & Pearson (1933): “most efficient test” should be “most efficient tests”.
Journal should be Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A.
Page 714: Neyman (1962): journal title should be Rev. Int. Stat. Inst.
Page 714: O’Hagan (1977): 1977 should be 1979.
Page 715: Pearson (1921-33): “17’th and 18’th Centuries” should be “17th and 18th Centuries”.
Page 715: Penfield: title of paper is ‘Some mechanisms of consciousness discovered during
electrical stimulation of the brain’. Page number 59 should be 51. First line of
comment, “stimulation of a specific spots” should be “stimulation of a specific spot”.
Page 715: Pierce: title should be An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and
Noise.
Page 715: Popov: should come before Popper.
Page 716: Quaster: “Quaster” should be “Quastler”. Book title should be Essays on the Use of
Information Theory in Biology.
Page 716: Reid (1959): “Reid, C.” should be “Rényi, A.” 1959 should be 1955.
Page 716: Robbins (1950): “Symposium of Mathematics Statistics” should be “Symposium on
Mathematical Statistics”.
Page 716: Robbins (1956): “Bayes’ approach” should be “Bayes approach”. “Mathematics,
Statistics” should be “Mathematical Statistics”.
Page 716: Sampson & Smith (1984): should come after “Sampson & Smith (1982)”.
Page 716: Sampson & Smith (1984): 1984 should be 1985. “15, 916” should be “SMC-15, 916”.
Page 716: Sanov: “42, 1144” should be “42, 11–44 (1957)”.
Page 716: Schendel: publisher should be Halsted Press, New York.
Page 717: Schnell: “Schnell” should be “Schell”, initials “E.E.” should be “E.D.”
Page 717: Schrödinger (1945): reference to volume 51 should include pages: 51, 1–8.
Page 717: Shamir (1982): 1982 should be 1983.
Page 717: Sheynin (1978): journal abbreviation should be Archiv. Hist. Exact Sci.
Page 717: Sheynin (1979): journal abbreviation should be Archiv. Hist. Exact Sci. Volume 19
should be 20.
Page 717: Siegmann: “Siegmann” should be “Siegmund”. Title should be Sequential Analysis:
Tests and Confidence Intervals.
Page 717: Simmons: “Cryptography” should be “Cryptology”.
Page 717: Sinai: “Sinai, J.G.” should be “Sinai, Y.G.” Book title should be Theory of Phase
Transitions: Rigorous Results.
Page 718: Stein (1964): “the usual estimate” should be “the usual estimator”.
Page 718: Stigler (1974b): pages 431–477 should be 431–447.
Page 718: Stone & Springer-Verlag: “Springer-Verlag” should be “Springer”.
Page 718: Train: “Analysis Theory” should be “Analysis: Theory”.
Page 719: Tukey (1978): “Seasonal Analysis of Time Series” should be “Seasonal Analysis of
Economic Time Series”.
Page 719: Tukey (1984): “Series 84–85” should be “Series 84–5”.
This article is available in The Collected Works of John W. Tukey, Volume II Time
Series: 1965–1984, pp. 1143–1153.
Page 719: Tukey et al. (1980): comma missing, “Bloomfield, P.Brillinger” should be
“Bloomfield, P., Brillinger”.
Page 719: Valery-Radot : “Valery-Radot” should be “Vallery-Radot”.
Page 720: Wax: title should be Selected Papers on Noise and Stochastic Processes.
Page 720: Whittle (1957): pages 38-47 should be 38-63.
Page 720: Wilson: title should be Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling.
Page 720: Wold (1954): title should be A Study in the Analysis of Stationary Time Series, 2nd ed.
“Almquist” should be “Almqvist”.
Page 720: Yockey: title should be Information Theory and Molecular Biology.
Page 720: Zellner: second line of comment: “Like the previous reference …” should be replaced
by a reference to Zellner (1971), listed in the References section.
Page 720: Zellner: fourth line of comment: “validty” should be “validity”.