Typo in Ghitza and Gelman MRP paper

Devin Caughey points out a typo in the second column of page 765 of our AJPS paper. Here’s what we have:

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The typo is in the third line of the second paragraph above. Where it says y^*_j = y.bar^*_j n_j, it should be y^*_j = y.bar^*_j n^*_j.

One frustrating system of the current system of journal publication is that I know of no way to append this correction to the published article. I can put it here, but anyone who misses this is stuck. And I don’t think the AJPS can link from the article to this post. I contacted the editor of the AJPS who said there will be no problem appending the correction to the electronic version of the article.

5 thoughts on “Typo in Ghitza and Gelman MRP paper

    • Lemmus:

      Maybe I’m wrong but my impression is that if you publish a correction it ends up as a separate article. I will send a note to the AJPS editors and ask.

      • I agree with you. A separate correction article or note is next to useless. Chances anyone reads both and correlates are somewhat small.

        I’d rather they upload a corrected version. I don’t know why that may be so hard.

  1. I would think that today most people today read journals in electronic form (or at least find articles electronically, then maybe print them out). This makes it possible to append a note and link to the correction to the listing (if that’s the right word) of the article in a table of contents or list of search results. I remeber having seen such a note, though it was probably not in the AJPS (which I hardly ever read).

  2. Does AJPS not have a place to put supplementary information? Often this is used for what used to be appendix proofs, tables that are too voluminous, etc. but there’s a good chance that a motivated reader will check this info (since who reads this stuff on dead trees any more)?

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