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6 November 2004: Added some additional info on Zellner's approach to ignorance priors.
8 June 2004:
- A partial solution to exercise 4.1 in Chapter 4, courtesy of Timothy D. Sanders.
- Additional errata in Chapter 2 (eqn. (2.45) and top of p. 33).
- Additional commentary for Chapter 2, showing how to derive eqn. (2.50) from (2.48).
23 November 2003:
- New erratum on p. 158 of Chapter 6, courtesy of Eliezer Yudowsky.
- Updated publication data and added links to discussion following publication of Constructing a logic of plausible inference.
- Added commentary and new errata to Chapter 18.
29 October 2003: New errata and a new section of commentary for Chapter 15.
11 October 2003:
- New errata for Chapter 2, courtesy of Tony Kocurko.
- New errata for the Preface, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 7, Chapter 12, Chapter 14, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 22, Appendix B, Appendix C, and References etc., courtesy of Nick Cox.
- New commentary for Chapter 4, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 17, and Chapter 20, courtesy of Nick Cox.
20 September 2003:
- Added some additional information on computing the parameters of a maximum-entropy distribution.
- Fixed the Jaynes mailing list link.
- New errata in Chapters 1, 2, and 17, especially the latter.
- Additional commentary for Chapter 17.
30 August 2003:
- Intro page: mailing list for discussion of PT:TLOS.
- Added some commentary on Zellner's proposed ignorance prior for an unknown probability of success.
- Added some references on computing the parameters of a maximum-entropy distribution from the desired expected values.
26 August 2003:
- Added a reference to J. M. Garrett's paper under Commentary: Additional treatments of Cox's Theorem.
- Added several pieces of commentary to Chapter 12: Ignorance priors and transformation groups
- Added new errata for Chapter 12 and Chapter 15.