This page will list corrections to the published version that are discovered after printing. Most of the following have been fixed in the second printing of the book. If you find other errors, please let us know by e-mailing whitlock@zoology.ubc.ca.

Chapter 2: p30: "adundance daa" should read "abundance data"

Page 40, Fig. 2.4-2. The legend for the fig reads "ETHOPIA" and should read "ETHIOPIA"

Chapter 3: p63: 4th line from bottom: change to "fall between Ybar -s and Ybar + s,"

Chapter 5: p122, question 7b.: Change last line to "bitten at least once by a dangerous snake"

Chapter 7: p. 161: The normal aproximation to the binominal is discussed in chapter 10, not 9.

p165: "thenumber" should be "the number"

p166. "Genghis Kahn" should be "Genghis Khan"

Chapter 9: p212: Delete "not" in last sentence of first paragraph.

Chapter 12: p295: The interleaf on pseudoreplication is Interleaf 2, not 4.

Chapter 12, top of p. 305: Change "H₀ is rejected if F > F_{a(1),n1-1,n2-1}." to " H₀ is rejected if F > F_{a(1)/2,n1-1,n2 -1}." 

Chapter 14:

Figures 14.4_1 and 14.4_2 were affected by a printers' error. They should look like:

Figure 14.4_1:

Figure 14.4_2:

Chapter 17: p. 464. Next to last sentence should read: "But correlation treats both variables equally, whereas regression predicts the value of one variable (the RESPONSE variable) from the other (the EXPLANATORY variable."

Chapter 17: p. 479. The eighth line should read "Y-hat - Ybar is analogous to the "groups" component in ANOVA."

Chapter 18: p528. Table 18.4-1: The degrees of freedom for Residual should read 31, and the total degrees of freedom should read 34.

Practice Problem answers:

p. 625, answer to Chapter 8, question 5: Change "c²_1,0.05 = 3.84" to "c²_3,0.05 = 7.81".

p. 629, answer to Chapter 9, question 6b: Change "35.0>13.82" to "19.5>13.82"