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Applied Statistics. A Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Edited by Leonard H. C. Tippett. Published by Oliver and Boyd Ltd., London: 98 Great Russell Street, W.C.; Edinburgh: Tweeddale Court. Single number, 10s, net. Annual subscription, 25s. ($4.) net. Vol. I, No. 1, March 1952. Pp. 80. W. A. W. Everyday Statistics. George W. Snedecor. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Company, 1950. Pp. iv, 170. $3.00. Spiral bound, paper. L. H. C. Tippett, British Cotton Industry Research Association Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments for Development Research. Donald Statler Villars. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Company, 1951. Pp. xvii, 455. $6.50. Kenneth J. Arnold, Michigan State College Statistische Methoden für Naturwissenschafter, Mediziner, und Ingenieure (Statistical Methods for Natural Scientists, Medical Men, and Engineers). A. Linder. Basel: Verlag Birkhäuser, 1951. Pp. 238. John W. Tukey, Princeton University J. Wolfowitz, Cornell University Basic Methods of Marketing Research. James H. Lorie (Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago) and Harry V. Roberts (Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1951. Pp. xii, 453. $6.00. Paul W. Stewart and A. B. Blankenship, Stewart, Dougall & Associates, Inc. Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation. Duncan Black and R. A. Newing. London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1952. Pp. vii, 59. 10s/6d. Harry Markowitz, The Rand Corporation The Facts of Life from Birth to Death. Louis I. Dublin (Second Vice-President and Statistician, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) in collaboration with Mortimer Spiegelman (Assistant Statistician, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951. Pp. x, 461. $4.95. Thomas N. E. Greville, National Office of Vital Statistics Migration Within Ohio, 1935–40. A Study in the Re-Distribution of Population. Warren S. Thompson. Oxford, Ohio: Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, Miami University, 1951. Pp. ix, 227. $1.00. Paper. Howard Whipple Green, Director, Cleveland Real Property Inventory, and Secretary, Cleveland Health Council The Cost of Sickness and the Price of Health. C. E. A. Winslow. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1951. Pp. 106. $1.50. Paper. Eli Ginzberg, Columbia University Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 14 (Conference on Research in Income and Wealth). New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1951. Pp. x, 276. $3.50. J. A. Nordin, Iowa State College Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment. Annual Estimates by States; 1900–1940. John P. Herring. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1951. Pp. iii, 55. Paper. Cedric Wolfe, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company The Nature and Tax Treatment of Capital Gains and Losses. Lawrence H. Seltzer (Professor of Economics, Wayne University) with the assistance of Selma F. Goldsmith and M. Slade Kendrick. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1951. Pp. xxii, 554. $7.50. George G. Hagedorn, National Association of Manufacturers History and Policies of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. C. Lowell Harriss. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1951. Pp. xix, 204. $3.00. Glenn H. Beyer, Cornell University Productivity, Supervision and Morale Among Railroad Workers. Daniel Katz, Nathan Maccoby, Gerald Gurin , and Lucretia G. Floor. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, 1951. Pp. xii, 61. Dale Yoder, University of Minnesota The Development of Bank Debits and Clearings and Their Use in Economic Analysis. George Garvy. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1952. Pp. viii, 175. 25 cents. Paper. Henry H. Villard, The City College, New York De Juiste Maat, Lichaamsafmetingen van Nederlandse vrouwen als basis van een nieuw maatsysteem voor dames-confectiekleding (The Right Size, Body measurements of Dutch women as a basis for a new system of sizing ladies’ ready-to-wear clothing). J. Sittig (Consultation Bureau for Applied Statistics) and H. Freudenthal (Professor of Mathematics in the University of Utrecht). Leiden: L. Stafleu, 1951. Pp. 402. Fl. 20.—. H. S. Konijn, University of California (Berkeley) Table of n ! and Γ( n +1/2) for the First Thousand Values of n . Herbert E. Salzer. National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Series 16. Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1951. Pp. iii, 10. 15 cents. W. A. W.