
Measuring Computer Performance
A Practitioner's Guide
David J. Lilja
Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2000
ISBN 0-521-64105-5
Errata
The following corrections should be made to the book.
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p. 31 -- The example at the bottom of this page should be
replaced with this file:
p31-correction.pdf.
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p. 53 -- In Equation (4.22), the term "z_(1-alpha/2)"
should be replaced with the term
"t_(1-alpha/2 ; n-1)."
Then add the following sentence as the last sentence
in this example,
"Note that in Equation (4.22) we have replaced
the z value in Equation (4.21) with the corresponding
value from the t table since only n=8 measurements
were used to compute the sample mean and the sample
standard deviation."
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p. 54 -- The first paragraph should read, "A binomial distribution
with parameters p and n has a mean of pn and a variance of p(1-p)n.
If np >= 10, we can approximate the binomial distribution with a
Gaussian distribution with mean p~n and variance p~(1-p~)n.
Applying ..." (The notation p~ is supposed to be the letter p with
a bar over the top.)
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p. 64 -- There is a small inconsistency between the
explanation on p. 64 and Table 5.1 on p. 65.
In the second sentence on p. 64,
the difference values are computed as
(di = ai - bi).
However, in Table 5.1, the difference values
are computed as (di = bi - ai).
Either way is fine -- the order of subtraction
changes only the sign of the difference (di) values.
The final conclusion about the comparison will remain the same.
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p. 69 -- The last sentence of the first paragraph in Section 5.1.3
should read, "From the characteristics ... mean for system i is
simply p_i n_i with a variance of p_i(1-p_i)n_i." (The notation p_i
means the letter p with the subscript i.)
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p. 69 -- The first sentence of the second paragraph in Section 5.1.3
should read, "If both ... with mean p_i n_i and variance
p_i(1-p_i)n_i."
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p. 70 -- Above Equation (5.21) the calculation for p should be,
"p = p1 - p2 = 0.0250 ..."
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p. 70 -- Equations (5.22) and (5.23) show the calculation
for a 95% confidence, not a 90% confidence interval
as stated in the text above and below these equations.
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p. 72 -- The first summation in Equation (5.25)
should be the sum from j=1 to k.
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p. 72 -- The entry y_kn in Table 5.3 should be y_nk.
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p. 77 -- In Table 5.6, the subscript for the F value
from the table should have 0.95 in place of 0.05.
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p. 79 -- In Equation (5.52),
the summation from j=1 to 3 should be omitted from
the second radical.
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p. 91 --
In the next-to-last sentence of the second paragraph,
"Thus, we have ... one tick while are measuring the event."
should be
"Thus, we have ... one tick while measuring the event."
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p. 101 -- In the first sentence of the second paragraph
of Section 6.4.2.1,
"interdeterminate" should be "indeterminate".
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p. 131 -- In the last paragraph of Section 7.3.3.1,
"...for both TPC and UDP network..."
should be
"...for both TCP and UDP network..."
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p. 144 -- The denominator in Equation (8.32)
should be "square root [7(86,611,800)]".
The remainder of the expression is correct.
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p. 148 -- In Equation (8.41),
"y" should be "y_i".
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p. 154 -- Near the end of the first paragraph,
"t_1-0.95;4 = 2.132" should be "t_0.95;4 = 2.132".
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p. 154 -- In the last paragraph,
y'_10 should be y_10 (that is, remove the prime mark).
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p. 163 -- In Equation (9.13),
the last term, y_bar,
should be added instead of subtracted.
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p. 164-165 -- In Equations (9.29), (9.30), and (9.31),
the subscript for F on the right-hand side should
have (1 - alpha) instead of alpha.
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p. 165 -- In Table 9.3,
the subscripts for all of the F values from the table
should have (1 - alpha) instead of alpha.
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p. 168 -- -- In Table 9.5, the subscript for the F values
from the table should have 0.95 in place of 0.05.
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p. 169 -- In step #5, the subscript for F should have
(1 - alpha) instead of alpha.
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p. 174 -- In Table 9.7,
the subscripts for all of the F values from the table
should have (1 - alpha) instead of alpha.
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p. 175 -- The sentence above Equation (9.62) should be,
"For example, from Table 9.11,
we find that the contrast
for the interaction between factors A and C is ..."
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p. 211 -- In the third paragraph,
the sentence that ends with,
"... where n is the total of points plotted."
should be
"... where n is the total number of random values generated."
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p. 219 -- In Figure 11.2,
the arrow pointing into the server of Disk 1 from the right-hand side
should be removed.
The arrow should be pointing out of this server.
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p. 230 -- Equation (11.16) should be
P_0 = 1 / (rho^0 + rho^1 + rho^2 + ...) = 1 / sum(rho^n)
where the summation still runs from n=0 to infinity.
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p. 243 -- In the last line on this page,
the term "ln(1-p)" should be "ln(p)".
This term should be corrected in both of
the places it appears in this line.