The following are the only known typos in the text. If others are found, please send them to Rich Feldman (richf@tamu.edu).
Page 29, Property 1.8. This property should read V[X1 + X2] = V[X1] + V[X2] + 2 cov(X1,X2).
Page 42, Problem 1.25. Second paragraph, second line, change the word “variances” to “standard deviations”.
Page 118, Line 11.
Replace 0 with t in the equation Pr{T ≤ 0} = 1 - Pr{T > 0}
= ... ; thus it should read
Pr{T ≤ t} = 1 - Pr{T > t} = ...
Page 119, Second line of first equation.
Missing negative sign in exponents; should be
-1.4, not 1.4. Thus it should read
= 1 - ( e -1.4 + 1.4 e - 1.4 + ...
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Page 320, Problem 11.5. This problem should refer back to Problem 11.4, not Exercise 8.4.