MARK book notice | change in chapter sequencing
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:10 pmFor a bunch of pedagogical reasons, I've resequenced three of the chapters. Now, chapter 8 deals with dead-recoveries, chapter 9 deals with live capture-dead recovery models, and chapter 10 deals with multi-state models. My main reason for doing this was that I decided (in hindsight) that dealing with dead recoveries and live-dead models made more sense if presented immediately after the live encounter chapters (4 -> 7), since the model structures are very similar, and since the MS chapter has had some significant extensions added showing/demonstrating that live encounter and dead recovery models can be treated as special cases of simple MS models.
I suspect that the change in sequencing will probably break a couple of things (most notably, references to specific chapters in this forum), but that can't be helped (besides, even if I didn't change chapter sequencing, any changes to chapter length -- more pages -- might very likely break references to particular pages).
At the moment, only the individual chapters (and references thereto) have been updated and put online (and, as noted, chapter 10 -- the MS chapter -- is the only one that has substantially extended content). Sometime next week, I'll find some time and re-build and re-index the entire book, and put it online. If you're one of those folks who work from the single indexed PDF file version of the book, you'll want to download the 'latest version' (again, sometime early next week). In the course of teaching my 'estimation class' this term, I've made a lot of minor corrections (100+ typos, clarified wording, some outright errors that have slipped through the cracks) to every chapter we've gone through to date (1 -> 10, appendix 2 to date).
I suspect that the change in sequencing will probably break a couple of things (most notably, references to specific chapters in this forum), but that can't be helped (besides, even if I didn't change chapter sequencing, any changes to chapter length -- more pages -- might very likely break references to particular pages).
At the moment, only the individual chapters (and references thereto) have been updated and put online (and, as noted, chapter 10 -- the MS chapter -- is the only one that has substantially extended content). Sometime next week, I'll find some time and re-build and re-index the entire book, and put it online. If you're one of those folks who work from the single indexed PDF file version of the book, you'll want to download the 'latest version' (again, sometime early next week). In the course of teaching my 'estimation class' this term, I've made a lot of minor corrections (100+ typos, clarified wording, some outright errors that have slipped through the cracks) to every chapter we've gone through to date (1 -> 10, appendix 2 to date).