Typos in Chapter 4
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Chapter 4 of “Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R” has four typos (so far) in the exercises:
– In Exercise 4.5, the 
– In Exercise 4.9, I commented too many lines when revising and thus the variance terms vanished. It should read
![mathbb{E} left[exp-X^2|yright] = frac{1}{sqrt{2 pi sigma^2/y}}intexp{-x^2},exp{-(x-mu)^2y/2sigma^2},text{d}x](http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=%5Cmathbb%7BE%7D+%5Cleft%5B%5Cexp-X%5E2%7Cy%5Cright%5D+%3D+%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B%5Csqrt%7B2+%5Cpi+%5Csigma%5E2%2Fy%7D%7D%5Cint%5Cexp%5C%7B-x%5E2%5C%7D%5C%2C%5Cexp%5C%7B-%28x-%5Cmu%29%5E2y%2F2%5Csigma%5E2%5C%7D%5C%2C%5Ctext%7Bd%7Dx&bg=000000&fg=B0B0B0&s=0 "mathbb{E} left[exp-X^2|yright] = frac{1}{sqrt{2 pi sigma^2/y}}intexp{-x^2},exp{-(x-mu)^2y/2sigma^2},text{d}x")
– In Exercise 4.13, following the removal of one exercise, Exercise 4.2 should read Exercise 4.1
– In Exercise 4.15, 
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