Mean Occupation Number of Non-interacting quantum fluids

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Hi, I get two contradicting sections of the book "Concepts in Thermal Physics":

Earlier in the section they used the grand partition function to derive the mean occupation number ##<n_i> = -\frac{1}{\beta}\frac{\partial ln Z}{\partial E_i}##

Later in the section, they said ##<n_k> = \frac{1}{\beta}\frac{\partial Z_k}{\partial \mu}##

Why does the first expression take the differential of ##ln Z## and the second expression simply takes the differential of ##Z##?

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If it helps, it was earlier defined that ##Z = \Pi_i\left( 1 \pm e^{\beta(\mu - E_i)}\right)^{\pm 1}##
 
It should be ln Z, it's just an error in the book. And the author is aware of it already, see this errata.
 
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