Book Reviews

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International Encyclopedia of Statistics (Vols. 1 and 2). : W.H. Kruskal and J.M. Tanur (eds.). New York. Free Press. 1978. 1350 pp. $100.00 (a set). Reviewed By S. James Press Jacob Wolfowitz Selected Papers. : J. Kiefer (ed.), with the assistance of U. Augustin and L. Weiss. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1980. xxiii + 642 pp. Reviewed By Somesh Das Gupta Inference and Linear Models. : D.A.S. Fraser. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. xii + 297 pp. $34.50. Reviewed By Robert J. Buehler Random Allocations. : Valentin F. Kolchin, Boris A. Sevast'yanov, and Vladimir P. Chistyakov. New York: John Wiley, 1978. xi + 262 pp. $19.95. Reviewed By Larry P. Ammann An Introduction to Stochastic Processes (3rd ed.). : M.S. Bartlett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. xvii + 388 pp. $26.50. Reviewed By Peter W. M. John Linear Estimation and Stochastic Control. : M.H.A. Davis. New York: Halsted Press, 1977. xii + 224 pp. $14.95. Reviewed By Patrick L. Odell Information Theory As Applied to Chemical Analysis. : Karel Eckschlager and Vladimiŕ Štěpańek. New York: Wiley Interscience, 1979. xv + 182 pp. $19.50. Reviewed By Patrick L. Brockett An Introduction to Applied Probability. : Ian F. Blake. New York: John Wiley, 1979. 528 pp. $21.95. Reviewed By Steven Fahrenholtz Statistical Computing. : William J. Kennedy, Jr. and James E. Gentle. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1980. xi + 591 pp. $26.50. Reviewed By Gary Tietjen Multivariate Analysis in Educational Research: Applications of the MULTIVARIANCE Program. : Jeremy D. Finn and Ingrid Mattsson. Chicago: National Educational Resources, 1978. viii + 138 pp. $12.50 (paperback). Reviewed By P. K. Sen Law and Economics: An Introductory Analysis. : Werner Z. Hirsch. San Francisco: Academic Press, 1979. xv + 275 pp. $16.50. Reviewed By David Kaye Census ′80: Continuing the Factfinder Tradition. : Charles P. Kaplan and Thomas Van Valey. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980. xviii + 490 pp. $7.50 (paperback). Reviewed By Michael R. Haines The Recall Method in Social Surveys. : Louis Moss and Harvey Goldstein (eds.). London: University of London, Institute of Education, 1979. 176 pp. £5.95 (paperback). Reviewed By Norman M. Bradburn Survey Sampling and Measurement. : N. Krishnan Namboodiri (ed.). New York: Academic Press, 1978. xxi + 364 pp. $23.00. Reviewed By Benjamin King Fundamentals of Decision Analysis. : Irving H. LaValle. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978. xiii + 626 pp. $25.00. Reviewed By W. A. Ericson Introduction to Social Statistics. : Vanderlyn R. Pine. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977. xiv + 415 pp. $13.95. Reviewed By George T. Duncan Mathematical Models As a Tool for the Social Sciences. : Bruce J. West (ed.). New York: Gordon and Breach, 1980. 120 pp. $26.50. Reviewed By Prem K. Goel Statistical Analysis: Applications to Business and Economics. : Clark A. Hawkins and Jean E. Weber. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. xiii + 626 pp. $20.95. Statistical Concepts: With Applications to Business and Economics. : Richard W. Madsen and Melvin L. Moeschberger. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980. xv + 653 pp. $19.95. Statistics for Business and Economics. : Joseph G. Van Matre and Glenn H. Gilbreath. Dallas: Business Publications, 1980. xiii + 589 pp. $18.50. Reviewed By Anne B. Koehler