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Errors Discovered in the First Print

Chapter 2

p. 38, line 4.  $q_1$ should be $q_0$.

Problem 6.  $H(Y|X)$ should be $H(X|Y)$.

Problem 7.  $p_^\prime_x$ should be $p^\prime_X$.

Problem 23.   The first inequality should read $D( p \| q) \ge c V^2(p,q)$.

Chapter 3

p. 74, line 11.  “Fu et al. [125]” should be “Fu and Yeung [125]”.

Chapter 6

p. 116, (6.29).  $=$ should be $\le$ because the summation is over ${\cal S}_X$ which may be smaller than $\cal X$.

Chapter 7

p. 157, Fig. 7.11.  upper bound” should be “lower bound”.

Chapter 9

p. 187, line -2.  $g(f(1)), g(f(2)), \cdots, g(f(M))$ should be $g(1), g(2), \cdots, g(M)$.

p. 216, the middle line in (9.41).  $p(x|y) > 0$ should be $p(y|x) > 0$.

p. 217,  line 7.  $p(x|y) = 0$ should be $p(y|x) = 0$.

p. 219, line 14.  $I(X ,  \hat{X})$ should be $I(X ; \hat{X})$.

p. 219, lines 16 and 18.  $( I ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}),  D ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}) )$ should be $( D ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}),  I ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}) )$.

p. 220, line 1.  $( R(D_s), D_2 )$ should be $( D_s, R(D_s) )$.

p. 220, (9.64) and (9.65).  In the infumum, $Q > 0$ should be $}\bf Q} > 0$.

p. 222,  (9.79) and two lines above.  $( R(D_s), D_2 )$ should be $( D_s, R(D_s) )$.

p. 222, (9.79) and one line below.  $( I ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}^{(k)}),  D ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}^{(k)}) )$ should be $( D ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}^{(k)}),  I ( {\bf p} , {\bf Q}^{(k)}) )$.

Chapter 10

p. 242, line -7.joint pdf” should be “continuous joint pdf”.

Chapter 11

p. 260, line -4.  ${\cal X}^n$ should be $\Re^n$.

p. 261.  The corrected Defintion 11.10 is here.

p. 294, line 5.  the last section” should be “Section 11.6”.

p. 263, the line above (11.56).  and $(n,M)$ code” should be “an $(n,M)$ code”.

p. 297, Problem 9.  $Z(t) * h_2(t’)$ should be $Z(t’) * h_2(t’)$.

Chapter 13

p. 338, line -5.  “Han [144]” should be “Han [148]”.

Chapter 16

p. 398, two lines below Theorem 16.22.  strong conditional AEP” should be “conditional strong AEP”.

Chapter 18

Problem 1.  $F_+(s) = F_-(t)$ should be $F_-(s) - F_+(s) = F_+(t) - F_-(t)$.

Problem 5.  In lines 4 and 5, $t_l$ should be $t$.

Chapter 19

p. 437, Section 19.2, lline 6.  trivially” should be “triviality”.

p. 446.  In Figure 19(c), the global encoding kernel for channel (s,u) should be $[ 0 0 ]^\top$ instead of $[ 1 0 ]^\top$.

p. 450, line 13.  The second $[ y_i z_i ]^\top$ should be $[ y_j z_j ]^\top$.

Problem 3(b), line 4.  obtaining” should be “obtained”.

Chapter 20

p. 488, eqn (20.14).  “K_S” should be “K_s”.

Chapter 21

p. 534, one line above (21.241).  strong conditional AEP” should be “conditional strong AEP”.

Problem 8, second last line.  Change (21.13) to $\Delta_t \le |T| \epsilon, t \in T$.

Bibliography

References [180] and [335] can be merged.  The author is Shunsuke Ihara.

Last update by Raymond W. Yeung on November 18, 2010.