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Social Indicators III: Selected Data on Social Conditions and Trends in the United States. : U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1980. lx + 585 pp. $17.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Howard Wainer Report on Statistical Uses of Administrative Records (Statistical Policy Working Paper 6 of the Office of Federal Statistical Policy and Standards). : Subcommittee on Statistical Uses of Administrative Records of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, Washington, DC: United States Department of Commerce, 1980. xii + 106 pp. Reviewed by Charles B. Nam Introduction to Policy Analysis. : Alexander M. Mood. New York: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1983. xv + 302 pp. Reviewed by Bruce L. Golden & Edward A. Wasil, Jr. Judgement and Choice: The Psychology of Decision. : Robin M. Hogarth. New York: John Wiley, 1980. xi + 250 pp. $23.50. Reviewed by Robert L. Winkler Rating Scale Analysis: Rasch Measurement. : Benjamin D. Wright and Geofferey N. Masters. Chicago, IL: MESA Press, 1982. xi + 206 pp. $24.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Leroy Wolins The Incidence and Economic Costs of Major Health Impairments: A Comparative Analysis of Cancer, Motor Vehicle Injuries, Coronary Heart Disease, and Stroke. : Nelson S. Hartunian, Charles N. Smart, and Mark S. Thompson. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1981. xxiv + 420 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Bruce M. Hill Deterring the Drinking Driver: Legal Policy and Social Control. : H. Laurence Ross. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, Lexington Books, 1982. xxvii + 129 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Michael R. Coveyou Measuring Income Inequality. : Fredrik Nygård and Arne Sandström. Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1981. v + 436 pp. Sw.kr. 128.50 (paperback). Reviewed by John Angle Probability and Measure. : Patrick Billingsley. New York: John Wiley, 1979. xiv + 515 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Frank Spitzer Point Processes. : D.R. Cox and Valerie Isham. London and New York: Chapman and Hall, 1980. viii + 188 pp. $16.50. Reviewed by Paul T. Holmes Algorithmic Methods in Probability. : Marcel F. Neuts (ed.), Amsterdam and New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1977. vi + 294 pp. $26.75/Dfl. 65.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Lynne Billard Modern Probability Theory: An Introductory Text Book. : B. R. Bhat. New York: John Wiley. 1981. xi + 256 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Steven Orey Nonlinear Renewal Theory in Sequential Analysis. : Michael Woodroofe. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1982. v + 119 pp. $14.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Robert A. Wijsman Stochastic Monotonicity and Queueing Applications of Birth-Death Processes (Lecture Notes in Statistics, No. 4). : Erik van Doorn. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981. vi + 118 pp. $9.80 (paperback). Reviewed by Ward Whitt Game Theory (2nd ed.). : Guillermo Owen. New York: Academic Press, 1982. xii + 344 pp. $29.50. Reviewed by Roy Gardner The Making of Statisticians. : J. Gani (ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982. viii + 263 pp. $19.80. Reviewed by Roger H. Moore Comparative Statistical Inference (2nd ed.). : Vic Barnett. New York: John Wiley, 1982. xvi + 325 pp. $38.00. Reviewed by Patrick L. Brockett Some Basic Theory for Statistical Inference. : E.J.G. Pitman. New York: Halsted Press (division of John Wiley), 1979. vii + 110 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Rudolf J. Beran The Readable Maths and Statistics Book. : Barry Edwards. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980. ix + 328 pp. $29.50 ($13.50 paperback). Reviewed by Mack Shelley A Primer in Data Reduction: An Introductory Statistics Textbook. : A.S.C. Ehrenberg. New York: John Wiley, 1982. xviii + 305 pp. $51.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Beaver The Analysis of Categorical Data (2nd ed). : R.L. Plackett. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1981. xii + 207 pp. $18.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Clifford C. Clogg Conversational Statistics with IDA™: An Introduction to Data Analysis and Regression. : Harry V. Roberts and Robert F. Ling. New York: The Scientific Press/McGraw-Hill, 1982. xiii + 657 pp. $24.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Robert J. Beaver Statistics in Practice. : Sheila M. Gore and Douglas G. Altman. London: British Medical Journal, 1982. 100 pp. $27.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Roger H. Moore Analyzing Experimental Data by Regression. : David M. Allen and Foster B. Cady, Belmont, CA: Lifetime Learning Publications (division of Wadsworth), 1982. xvi + 394 pp. $28.95. Reviewed by Peter C. O'Brien Calculate Basic Statistics. : Mark Finkelstein and George McCarty. Laguna Beach, CA: EduCALC Publications, 1982. 351 pp. $14.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Roger H. Moore Applied Life Data Analysis. : Wayne Nelson. New York: John Wiley, 1982. ix + 634 pp. $40.95. Reviewed by W. A. Thompson, Jr. Classification: Methods for the Exploratory Analysis of Multivariate Data. : A.D. Gordon. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1981. xii + 193 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Robert R. Sokal An Introduction to Mathematical Taxonomy. : G. Dunn and B.S. Everitt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 152 pp. $29.95 ($11.95 paperback). Reviewed by F. James Rohlf Statistical Applications in the Spatial Sciences. : N. Wrigley (ed.), New York: Pion Ltd., 1979. 310 pp. $32.00. Reviewed by Lawrence S. Mayer Nonparametric Geostatistics. : Stephen Henley. New York: Halsted Press, 1981. xiv + 145 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Paul Switzer Time Series Models. : A.C. Harvey. New York: Halsted Press, 1981. x + 229 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by David A. Dickey The Handbook of Forecasting: A Manager's Guide. : Spyros Makridakis and Steven C. Wheelwright (eds.). New York: John Wiley, 1982. xv + 602 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Mark C. K. Yang Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Interface. : William F. Eddy (ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981. xiii + 378 pp. $24.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Thomas A. Bubolz Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method. : Reuven Y. Rubinstein. New York: John Wiley, 1981. xv + 278 pp. $32.95. Reviewed by Robert F. Ling Handbook of Applicable Mathematics, Vol. IV: Analysis. : Walter Ledermann and Steven Vajda (eds.). New York: John Wiley, 1982. xxiii + 865 pp. $85.00. Reviewed by Robert J. Buehler