Known errors in the 5th edition of Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data. If you find others, please write to bklingen@artofstat.com.
The value for Italy was wrong, and the dataset actually does include the United States, but with a different value. So, parts b) and c) should read:
b. Italy had a per capita consumption of 126 million BTU. How many standard deviations from the mean was its consumption?
c. The United States per capita consumption was 316 million BTU. How many standard deviations from the mean was its consumption?
The question, as currently worded, doesn't make much sense. Please use the following wording for part e:
e. Is it true that the proportion of jurors delivering a guilty verdict is about 6% higher for those jurors who watched the recording with the strong testimony? Explain.
The exercise should say “when a team has” instead of “when each team has”. The first sentence should read:
Standard deviation for best out of seven The table below shows the probability distribution for the number of games played in a best of seven series when a team has a 50% (taken from Example 2) or 99% chance of winning a game.
The solutions to Exercise 10.33 in the back of the book are wrong. The standard error in part a should be 1.78 (not 0.701) and the confidence interval should be (2.36, 9.44). With 95% confidence, we estimate that the mean body dissatisfaction assessment score is between 2.4 and 9.4 points higher for lean sport athletes compared to non-lean sport athletes.
The referenced exercise should be 10.125 and not 10.126.
The first sentence should read:
“Refer to the previous exercise, for which predicted population growth was 13.39% per decade.”