The Wall Street Journal-20080215-Corrections - Amplifications
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Corrections & Amplifications
Full Text (297 words)In addition to its 20-city survey of home prices, Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller publishes a national home-price index based on data from more than 100 metropolitan areas. Yesterday's Capital column incorrectly said the data are limited to 20 major markets.
(See: "CAPITAL: When Home Values Don't Mesh" -- WSJ February 14, 2008)
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Alitalia SpA's 2006 pretax loss was 605 million euros ($881 million). A brief article yesterday incorrectly reported the loss as 405 million euros.
(See: "Business Brief -- Alitalia SpA: Pretax Deficit Narrows, But Problems Remain" -- February 14, 2008)
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A Science Journal column from Sept. 15, 2006, noted the story of Diagoras of Melos as an early example of publication bias, which is the tendency of scientists to report only the findings that support a point. The column failed to credit Mark Petticrew, a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, for making the connection between Diagoras and publication bias in a Nov. 7, 1998, letter in the British medical journal the Lancet.
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UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s Ingenix unit supplies statistical information to many health plans that the plans use to set rates for out-of-network medical services. The headline on a Personal Journal article yesterday about the New York attorney general's intention to sue UnitedHealth incorrectly said the unit sets the rates.
(See: "Probe Targets Health Insurers On Payments --- New York Spotlights Unit Of UnitedHealth That Sets Out-of-Network Rates" -- WSJ February 14, 2008)
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Steve Ricchetti and Doug Sosnik are strategists for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. A front-page article and graphic yesterday misspelled their last names as Richetti and Sosnick. Music played at a Clinton campaign event in Texas was Mexican. The article described it as Spanish.
(See: "Clinton Team Seeks to Calm Turmoil" -- WSJ February 14, 2008)
