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Regression and other stories R examples
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Sine or tangent? #137

Open jepfischer opened 9 months ago

jepfischer commented 9 months ago

In the golf shot model, on page 463 of the 26 Oct 2023 corrected pdf, shouldn't sin-1, or asin, be tan-1, or atan (-1 as exponent)?

andrewgelman commented 8 months ago

In practice it won't matter, and the geometric model is only approximate anyway. But, based on the geometry of the model, it really is sine, not tangent.