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Minor Problems/Errors Discovered in the First Print

• p. vii, line 2.  "get" should be "gets".
• p. xv, last line.  "Teletar" should be replaced by "Telatar" throughout the book.
• p. xix ff.  The title of Chapter 9 should be "RATE-DISTORTION THEORY" instead of "RATE DISTORTION THEORY".
• p. 4, line 5.  "Britanica" should spell "Britannica".  The same for reference [65] on p.392, and the web address should be http://www.britannica.com/.
• p. 8, Proposition 2.10, second line.  "forms" should be "form".
• p. 8, Example 2.11, first line.  "forms" should be "form".
• p. 36, Problem 5, first line.  "Expectation" should be "expectation".
• p. 55.  Line 12, change "descendent" to "child".  Line 15, change "descendent(s)" to "child (children)" and "descendent" to "child".
• p. 59, Problem 10, part b).  $\{ l_k \}$ should be $\{ l_j \}$.
• p. 61., Eqn (4.3).  $< \epsilon$ should be $\le \epsilon$.
• p. 66., the 6th line from below.  ${\cal M} = 2^n$ should be $M = 2^n$.  Also in (4.31), $| {\cal M} |$ should be $M$.
• p. 67, line 9.  "i.e." should be "i.e.,".
• p. 70, Problem 2.  The encoding function should be $f$ and the decoding function should be $g$.
• p. 70, Problems 5 and 6.  The assumption that $\cal X$ is finite is unnecessary.
• p. 71, Problem 8.  "the Guassian random variable" should be "a Gaussian random variable".  The assumption that $\cal X$ is finite is unnecessary.
• p. 73.  The first sentence in the last paragraph should read "... etc, are taken over the corresponding supports unless otherwise specified."
• p. 74.  In Eqn (5.5), $prod_x$ should be $prod_{x \in {\cal X}}$.
• p. 76, Eqn (5.25) and the line above.  "for some $x$" should be "for some $x \in {\cal X}$".
• p. 90, Figure 5.2.  $S_{[XY]\delta}^n$ should be $T_{[XY]\delta}^n$.
• p. 92, Proposition 5.12.  At the beginning, add ``With respect to a joint distribution $p(x,y)$ on ${\cal X} \times {\cal Y}$, ".
• p. 92, Section 5.4, the second paragraph.  At the end of the first sentence, add", so that $T_{[XY|Z]\delta}^n ({\bf z})$ is nonempty".  At the end of the second sentence, add "or ${\bf x} \in T_{[X|Z]\delta}^n ({\bf z})$ and ${\bf y} \in T_{[Y|Z]\delta}^n ({\bf z})$, respectively".
• p. 93, Problem 4, line 3.  $N(x|{\bf x})$ should be $N(x;{\bf x})$.
• p. 116, Example 6.15, line 8.  "evesdropper" shoud be "eavesdropper".
• p. 152, Eqn (8.17).  "\le" should be "=".
• p. 162, line 5.  "to handle" should be "for handling".
• p. 178, Figure 8.13.  There is an arrow from $W$ to $X_{i-1}$.
• p. 183, Problem 3.  $P \{ Z_i = 1 \}$ should be ${\rm Pr} \{ Z_i = 1 \}$.
• p. 184, Problem 3, parts a) and c).  All $H_b$ should be $h_b$.
• p. 184, Problem 7, part c).  All $H$ should be $h$ in the inequality, and "less than" should be "upper bounded by".
• p. 186, Problem 14.  $\epsilon_i$ should be $\epsilon(i)$, and $H_b$ should be $h_b$.
• p. 186, Problem 15.  $H_b(\epsilon_2)$ should be $1 - h_b(\epsilon_2)$.
• p. 278.  In part a) of Problem 3, the first line is out of bound.
• p. 328, Figure 15.1.  b_3 and b_4 should be b_1 and b_2, respectively.
• p. 329, 330, 332.  The shaded regions in Figures 15.2, 15.4, and 15.6 are not printed clearly.
• p. 305, line 10.  "the 6 elemental inequalities given in (14.8) and (14.12)" should be "the 9 elemental inequalities given in (14.8), (14.9), and (14.12)"
• p. 349, Eqn (15.133).  A colon is missing after "U_{i'i}".
• p. 358, Eqn (15.222).  "=" should be "<=".
• p. 359, line 3.  "take" should be "takes".
• p. 360, the first line of Eqn (15.A.6).  The last "}" should be ")".
• p. 363.  The equations (15.A.14) and (15.A.15) should not be labeled.
• p. 364, line 7.  "superposition" should be "superposition coding".
• p. 395, reference [116].  "Kieffer," should be "Kieffer and".
• p. 400, reference [209].  "years" should be "Years".