Open m-wells opened 3 years ago
I don't think this is correct that we set sigma_y equal to S in this exercise (exercise 11 in the arXiv version). The code that produces these figures is here (we re-numbered the exercises after writing the code) and you can see that we set the data covariance to S x identity matrix as stated in the problem.
@jobovy You are correct and I was in mid edit correction as I was looking my work. I still think the wording is a bit unclear though.
@jobovy I have edited my initial comment.
My confusion essentially boils down to two typos which I have fixed in the PR.
I believe there is a typo in https://github.com/davidwhogg/DataAnalysisRecipes/blob/710a6c959aa0072607d82e9a67a2f389a4c943d3/straightline/straightline.tex#L370 which should be
I also found this problem to be poorly worded https://github.com/davidwhogg/DataAnalysisRecipes/blob/710a6c959aa0072607d82e9a67a2f389a4c943d3/straightline/straightline.tex#L1767-L1774
The statement
is not self-consistent. I believe it should read as