Errata (Last Printing of the 1st Edition)

A list of (additional) errors in the first printing can be found here.

Chapter 1

Line -6: "17 disease categories" should be "19 disease categories"
(reported by Michael Schmitt, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, February 2004)

Line 5 : "for weather" should be "for windy"
(reported by Quan Qiu, October 2005)

Chapter 2

Line 11: "3684" should be "3884"
(reported by Quan Qiu, May 2005)

Chapter 4

Table 4.7: "gain ratio: 0.029/1.362" should be "gain ratio: 0.029/1.557" and "0.021" should be "0.019"
(reported by Chiung-Wei Huang, Department of Electronic Engineering, Ching-Yun Institute of Technology, December 2002)

Line -3: "third line from" should be "line at"
(reported by Lin Dong, September 2005)

Line -11 : "first row" should be "first two rows", and "shows" should be "show"
(reported by Lin Dong, September 2005)

Line -9 : "mild" should be "hot"
(reported by Lin Dong, September 2005)

Line 8: "4/12" should be "4/14"
(reported by Xie Xuanyang, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, December 2004)

Line -5: "minumum" should be "minimum"
(reported by Michael Schmitt, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, February 2004)

Chapter 5

Line 9: "0.0.881" should be "0.881"

Chapter 6

Line -6 : "building it incrementally by adding conjunctions" should be "pruning a rule incrementally by removing conjunctions"
(reported by Lin Dong, July 2005)

Lines -4--5 : "However, if during backtracking a node is encountered all of whose children are not leaves" should be "However, if during backtracking a node is encountered not all of whose children expanded so far are leaves"
(reported by Lin Dong, July 2005)

Line 2: "krantz" should be "kranz"
(reported by Johannes Fürnkranz, December 2005)

Line 16 : "eight weights" should be "ten weights"
(reported by Lin Dong, May 2005)

Lines 16-17 : "no hidden layers" should be "one hidden layer"

Line 13 : the exponent is missing a minus sign before the fraction (reported by Lin Dong, January 2006)

Lines 5-6 : "minimum" should be "maximum".
(reported by Lin Dong, July 2005)

Chapter 7

Lines -17 and -18: ", and true otherwise" should be deleted and "are set to false" should be "are set to true"
(reported by Lin Dong, August 2005)

Line -8: "the X^2 test" should be "the $\chi^2$ test"
(reported by Michael Schmitt, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, February 2004)

Chapter 8

Line 37: "weka.classifiers.bagging" should be "weka.classifiers.Bagging"

References

Line -8: "krantz" should be "kranz"
(reported by Johannes Fürnkranz, December 2005)

Index

"resubstitution error 129" should be "resubstitution error 121, 129"
(reported by Michael Schmitt, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, February 2004)