Most of the corrections that follow are either due to typographical errors or to answers given in the Answers to Selected Exercises. Thanks are due for the most part to Theodore Hailperin (TH), Professor Emeritus at Lehigh University, and to Lewis Henry LaRue (LHL), professor of Law at Washington and Lee University for discovering these errors. The corrections are given with the page numbers and the lines on which the points in question appear, and the corrector’s initials, in the order in which the errors appear in the text. Lines from the ends of pages, including those in footnotes, are indicated with an asterisk.

p. 9, l 10.

Replace ‘Q’’ with ‘Q’ (remove prime from &# 145;Q’). (TH)

pp. 16, 17.
  1. Diagram 2.5, p. 16, should be ‘improved’ as shown below.

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  2. p. 16, line 8*, replace ‘.7’ at end with ‘.8’.
  3. p. 17, Table 2.2. In column under ‘case’ in black bordered part of table, replace ‘2’ with ‘3’ and replace ‘3’ with ‘2’.
  4. In column under ‘E&L’ replace ‘.1’ with ‘.2’.
  5. In column under ‘E&~L’ replace ‘.2’ with ‘.1’.
  6. In column under ‘~E’ replace ‘b+d’ with ‘c+d’.
  7. In column under ‘L’ replace ‘a+b’ with ‘a+c’. (LHL)

p. 26, l 8*.

Replace ‘6’ with ‘7’. (TH)

p. 31, footnote 26.

Delete second sentence, beginning "The solution …". (TH)

p. 35, line 1*.

Replace ‘statedescription’ with ‘statedescriptions’. (TH)

p. 39, line 3 of step 4 in proof.

Replace ‘i = 1, .., n’ with ‘i = 1, …, n’. (TH)

p. 47, line 11*.

Replace ‘Theorem 14*’ with ‘Theorem 15*’. (TH)

p. 56, line 10*.

Replace ‘probabilisitic’ with ‘probabilistic’. (TH)

p. 58, line 9*.

Replace ‘tasking’ by ‘taking’. (TH)

p. 59, line 11.

Replace ‘p(f n | f 1)’ with ‘p(f 2 | f 1)’.

p. 96, line 13.

Replace ‘inequality’ with ‘equality’. (TH)

p. 127, line 7.

Replace ‘is’ with ‘would’. (TH)

p. 128, line 6*.

Replace ‘p’ with ‘u’. (TH)

p. 311, line 5.

The answer to part g of exercise 2 of section 2.1 should be ‘1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8’. (LHL)

p. 311, line 1*.

Replace ‘.5’ with ‘.6’. (TH)

p. 311, line 14*.

Replace ‘.4’ in column #2 in answer to part a of exercise 1 with ‘.2’. (LHL)

p. 311, line 12*.

Replace ‘.4’ in column #2 in answer to part e of exercise 1 with ‘.9’. (LHL)

p. 312, line 1*.

Replace ‘.7’ with ‘.9’. (TH)

p. 367, line 14.

Replace ‘Nillson’ with ‘Nilsson’. (TH)

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