Errata for The Simple and Infinite Joy of Mathematical Statistics
Extract Hash From Walletdat Top -
The most common and reliable method is using a script from the suite called bitcoin2john.py . This Python script scans your wallet.dat file and pulls out the hash in a format that password-cracking software can understand. How to use it:
Page 321: Subscripts were disappearing and reappearing in this proof.
Page 323: There is an extra n in the second centered equation from the top of the page.
Page 434: Near the bottom of the page it says that \(\alpha = k_{1}/\theta_{0}\) when it should say that \(\alpha = (k_{1}/\theta_{0})^{n}\).
Page 452: In Exercise 4a the alternate hypothesis should be the simple hypothesis that \(\theta =\theta_{1}\) for some fixed \(\theta_{1} \ne 0\).
