{"id":900,"date":"2023-03-23T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2023-03-23T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:25:03","slug":"how-many-typos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allendowney.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/23\/how-many-typos\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Typos?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I started work at Brilliant<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, I learned that one of my new colleagues, Michelle McSweeney, just published a book called OK<\/em><\/a>, which is all about the word OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we discussed the joys and miseries of publishing, Michelle mentioned that she had found a typo in the book after publication. So naturally I took it as a challenge to find the typo. While I was searching, I enjoyed the book very much. If you are interested in etymology, linguistics, and history, I recommend it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turned out, I found exactly one typo. When I told Michelle, she asked me nervously which page it was on. Page 17. She looked disappointed \u2013 that was not the same typo she found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, for people who like Bayesian statistics, this scenario raises some questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. After our conversation, how many additional typos should we expect there to be?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. If she and I had found the same typo, instead of different ones, how many typos would we expect?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    As it happens, I used a similar scenario as an example in Think Bayes<\/em><\/a>. So I was able to reuse some code and answer these questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You can read my solution here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You can also click here to run the notebook with the solution on Colab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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