This is a correction to: Andrés F. Vargas, Andrew Melatos, Apparent dispersion in pulsar braking index measurements caused by timing noise, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 522, Issue 4, July 2023, Pages 4880–4893, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1301.

In the originally published version of this manuscript, at several points on p. 4891, three consecutive minus signs were placed where there should have been just one.

This error has been corrected online.

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