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The Concept and the Role of the Model in Mathematics and Natural and Social Sciences. Hans Freudenthal, Editor. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1961. Pp. 194. Dfl. 21.- Reviewed by Neil W. Henry Income and Welfare in the United States. James N. Morgan, Martin H. David, Wilbur J. Cohen, and Harvey E. Brazer. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962. Pp. x, 531. $7.95. Reviewed by Margaret G. Reid Mathematical Methods in Small Group Processes. Joan Criswell, Herbert Solomon, and Patrick Suppes, Editors. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1962. Pp. viii, 361. $9.75. Reviewed by Anatol Rapoport Dividends Under the Income Tax. Daniel M. Holland. (National Bureau of Economic Research Fiscal Studies Number 7.) Princeton, New Jersey: University Press, 1962. Pp. xvii, 189. $4.50. Reviewed by Harvey E. Brazer The Employment Forecast Survey. Douglas G. Hartle. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1962. Pp. xi, 153. $3.75. Reviewed by William H. Andrews Data Quality Control—A New Research Technique. Prolegomena to a Cross-Cultural Study of Culture Stress. Raoul Naroll. New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962. Pp. 198. $5.00. Reviewed by Frederick Mosteller and E. A. Hammel Queues. D. R. Cox and Walter L. Smith. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1961. Pp. xii, 180. $3.75. Reviewed by Samuel Karlin Information from Censored Samples. Carl-Erik Särndal. Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1962. Pp. 120. $3.50. Reviewed by Benjamin Epstein Contributions to Order Statistics. Ahmed E. Sarhan and Bernard G. Greenberg, Editors. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962. Pp. xxv, 482. $11.25. Reviewed by H. J. Godwin Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Volume III: Astronomy, Meteorology and Physics. Jerzy Neyman, Editor. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1961. Pp. xi, 335. $7.00. Reviewed by D. A. Darling Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Volume IV: Biology and Problems of Health. Jerzy Neyman, Editor. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1961. Pp. xii, 413. $8.50. Reviewed by Lincoln E. Moses Economic-Shock Models: Studies in the Theory of their Construction. Fritz C. Holte. Oslo, Norway: Norwegian Universities Press, 1962. Pp. 116. No price listed. Paper. Reviewed by Harold W. Watts Statistical Management of Inventory Systems. Harvey M. Wagner. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962. Pp. xiv, 235. $8.95. Reviewed by George Hadley The United States Savings Bond Program. George Hanc. (National Bureau of Economic Research, Occasional Paper 81.) New York: Woodhaven Press Associates Corporation, 1962. Pp. xiv, 108. $1.50. Paper. Reviewed by Earl R. Rolph Economics of Higher Education. Selma J. Mushkin, Editor , (United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1962. Pp. xviii, 406. $1.50. Paper. Reviewed by W. Lee Hansen Quantitative Techniques in Marketing Analysis: Text and Readings. Ronald E. Frank, Alfred A. Kuehn, William F. Massey, Editors. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1962. Pp. xvii, 556. $7.95. Reviewed by John B. Stewart The Flow-Of-Funds Approach to Social Accounting: Appraisal, Analysis, and Applications. National Bureau of Economic Research. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1962. Pp. x, 487. $10.00. Reviewed by Werner Hochwald Managerial Economics: Text and Cases. Erwin Esser Nemmers , New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962. Pp. xv, 498. $10.25. Reviewed by Thomas A. Marschak Production Function Analyses of British and Irish Farm Accounts. Knud Rasmussen with M. M. Sandilands. Loughborough, England: University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, 1962. Pp. viii, 116. 17s. 6d. Paper. Reviewed by Irving Hoch Surplus Labor in Greek Agriculture, 1953–60, Adam A. Pepelasis and Pan A. Yotopoulos. Athens, Greece: Center of Economic Research, 1962. Pp. 187, $2.50. Paper. Reviewed by G. Edward Schuh Aspects of Labor Economics: A Conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research. The National Bureau of Economic Research , New York. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1962. Pp. xii, 349. $7.50. Reviewed by Jack Stieber Fertility Differences in a Modernizing Country: A Survey of Lebanese Couples. David Yaukey. Princeton, New Jersey: University Press, 1961. Pp. xviii, 204. $4.00. Reviewed by A. J. Jaffe Sampling in Auditing, A Simplified Guide and Statistical Tables. Henry P. Hill, Joseph L. Roth, and Herbert Arkin. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1962. Pp. vi, 57; Tables and Appendix. $5.00. Reviewed by Nicolai Pavlov Field Plot Technique, Second Edition. Erwin L. LeClerg, Warren H. Leonard, and Andrew G. Clark. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Burgess Publishing Company, 1962. Pp. iii, 373. $7.75. Reviewed by Foster B. Cady Elements of Set Theory. Peter W. Zehna and Robert L. Johnson. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1962. Pp. xiv, 194. $6.50. Reviewed by Earl W. Adams Time Series Forecasting, A New Computer Technique for Company Sales Forecasting. R. L. McLaughlin. Chicago, Illinois: American Marketing Association, 1962. Pp. 72. $2.00 Member; $4.00 Non-Member. Paper. Reviewed by Dudley J. Cowden La Programmazione Matematica della Produzione. Francesco Bramhilla. Milano, Italy: La Goliardica, 1960. Pp. 662, No price listed, paper. Reviewed by L. M. Goreux Logical Foundations of Probability, Second Edition. Rudolf Carnap. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. xxvii, 613. $10.00. Annual Abstract of Statistics 1962. Central Statistical Office. London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962. Pp. xi, 324. $4.50. Paper. Economic Survey 1962. Economic Planning Board, Republic of Korea. Seoul, Korea: Economic Planning Board, Republic of Korea, 1962. Pp. 216. No price listed. Paper. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Indexes to Volumes 1–31, 1930–1960. J. Arthur Greenwood, Ingram Olkin, and I. Richard Savage, Editors. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1962. Pp. 658. $5.00. Paper. Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, Third Edition. Paul G. Hoel. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962. Pp. xi, 427. $6.95. Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1962. International Labour Office. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office, 1963. Pp. xxiv, 542. $6.00. The Theory and Management of Systems. Richard A. Johnson, Fremont E. Kast, and James Rosenzweig. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963. Pp. ix, 350. $8.50. Methods of Statistical Analysis in Economics and Business, Second Edition. Edward E. Lewis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Pp. x, 726. $7.95. Tables of Random Permutations. Lincoln E. Moses and Robert V. Oakford. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1963. Pp. 233. $7.00. Forecasting Sales. National Industrial Conference Board. New York: National Industrial Conference Board, Inc., 1963. Pp. 109. NICB Associates, and Government agencies, $3.00; All others, $15.00. The Soviet Mineral-Fuels Industries, 1928–1958: A Statistical Survey. Demitri B. Shimkin , Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1962. Pp. x, 183. $1.00. Paper. Readings in Mathematical Programming, Second Edition. S. Vajda. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962. Pp. viii, 130. $4.25. So Much Alive: The Life and Work of Wladimir S. Woytinsky. Emma S. Woytinsky, Editor. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1962. Pp. xx, 272. $6.00.