Book Reviews

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Maintaining the Quality of Energy Statistics for Economic and Energy Analysis . Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982. ix + 95 pp. Reviewed by Lincoln E. Moses State and Metropolitan Area Data Book: 1982. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1982. lxxxix + 611 pp. (paperback). Reviewed by Robert Parke Database Systems for Statistical Applications. G. R. Hext with W. A. Gray and S. E. Clark. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1983. vi + 121 pp. £5.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Wray Smith The User's Guide to Multidimensional Scaling. A. P. M. Coxon. Exeter, NH: Heinemann Educational Books, 1982. xii + 271 pp. $28.00. Key Texts in Multidimensional Scaling. P. M. Davies and A. P. M. Coxon (eds.). Exeter, NH: Heinemann Educational Books, 1982. xx + 349 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Geoffrey J. Iverson Cluster Analysis and Data Analysis. M. Jambu and M-0. Lebeaux. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1983. xxiv + 898 pp. $85.00. Reviewed by James M. Landwehr Achievement Testing: Recent Advances. Isaac I. Bejar. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1983. 88 pp. $5.00 (paperback). Reviewed by David Rindskopf Analysis Without Measurement. Donald W. Katzner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xiii + 304 pp. $37.50. Reviewed by George Duncan Survey Research by Telephone. James H. Frey. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1983. 208 pp. $12.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Owen T. Thornberry, Jr. Population Change and Social Policy. Nathan Keyfitz. Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 1983. xviii + 265 pp $28.00. Reviewed by Wllliam P. Butz Wines: Their Sensory Evaluation. Maynard A. Amerine and Edward B. Roessler. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1982. xv + 432 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Leroy Wolins Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). Jacob Cohen and Patricia Cohen. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1983. xxiii + 545 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Geoffrey T. Fong Statistical Methods in Agriculture and Experimental Biology. R. Mead and R. N. Curnow. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1983. xi + 335 pp. $19.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Klnley Larntz Statistical Procedures for Agricultural Research (2nd ed.). Kwanchai A. Gomez and Arthur A. Gomez. New York: John Wiley, 1984. xvi + 680 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by D. F. Cox Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis. Douglas C. Montgomery and Elizabeth A. Peck. New York: John Wiley, 1982. xiii + 504 pp. $34.95. Applied Linear Regression Models. John Neter, William Wasserman, and Michael H. Kutner. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1983. xv + 547 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Paul D. Sampson Multivariate Statistical Methods: An Introduction. Marvin J. Karson. Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, 1982. x + 307 pp. $24.95. Multlvarlate Analysis. K. V. Mardia, J. T. Kent, and J. M. Bibby. New York: Academic Press, 1979. xv + 521 pp. $75.00. Reviewed by Michael Sutherland The Complete Categorized Guide to Statistical Selection and Ranking Procedures. Edward J. Dudewicz and Joo 0. Koo. Columbus, OH: American Sciences Press, 1982. v + 627 pp. $85.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Jason C. Hsu Theory of statistical Experiments. H. Heyer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982. x + 289 pp. $19.80. Reviewed by R. V. Ramamoorthi Statistical Analysis of Counting Processes. Martin Jacobsen. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982. vii + 226pp. $14.80 (paperback). Reviewed by Sidney Resnick Weak Convergence of Measures. Harald Bergström. New York: Academic Press, 1982. x + 245 pp. $49.50. Reviewed by David Pollard Random Perturbations of Dynamical Systems. M. I. Freidlin and A. D. Wentzell. New York Springer-Verlag, 1983. viii + 326 pp. $56.00. Reviewed by S. R. S. Varadhan Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis. Erik Vanmarcke. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983. xii + 382 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by J. K. Ord An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling. Howard M. Taylor and Samuel Karlin. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1984. x + 399 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by W. A. Thompson, Jr. Markov Decision Processes With Continuous Time Parameter. F. A. Van der Duyn Schouten. Amsterdam: Mathematisch Centrum, 1983. iv + 194 pp. Dfl. 26.40 (paperback). Reviewed by Martin L. Puterman Algorithms and Approximations for Queueing Systems. M. H. van Hoorn. Amsterdam: Mathematisch Centrum, 1984. vi + 122 pp. Dfl. 17.90 (paperback). Reviewed by W. A. Thompson, Jr. Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 2. H.-J. Lenz, G. B. Wetherill, and P.-Th. Wilrich (eds.). Wunburg: Physica-Verlag, 1984. v + 292 pp. $43.60 (paperback). Reviewed by W.A. Thompson, Jr. Attribute Sampling Plans, Tables of Tests and Confidence Limits for Proportions. R. E. Odeh and D. B. Owen. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1983. xi + 368 pp. $69.75. Reviewed by Asit P. Basu Risk Analysis and Its Applications. David B. Hertz and Howard Thomas. Chichester, England: John Wiley, 1983. xv + 323 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by William B. Fairley Data for Decisions: Information Strategies for Policy Makers. David C. Hoaglin, Richard J. Light, Bucknam McPeek, Frederick Mosteller, and Michael A. Stoto. Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 1982. xxii + 318 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Michael R. Coveyou Fix-Point Estimation in Theory and Practice. Reinhold Bergstrom and Herman Wold. Göttingen, W. Germany: Van denhoeck and Ruprecht, 1983. 128 pp. DM36.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Harold Watts Time Series and Forecasting With IDA. Harry V. Roberts. New York: Scientific Press/McGraw-Hill, 1984. vii + 459 pp. (paperback). Reviewed by D. M. Hanssens A Guide to Simulation. Paul Bratley, Bennett L. Fox, and Linus E. Schrage. New York: Springer Verlag, 1983. xviii + 383 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Lee W. Schruben Probability Models and Cancer. L. LeCam and J. Neyman (eds.). Amsterdam and New York: North-Holland, 1982. xviii + 301 pp. $40.00/Dfl.120.00. Reviewed by Edward Lustbader Statistical analysis of DNA Sequence Data. B. S. Weir (ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker, 1983. ix + 255 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by Samprit Chatterjee