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Bayesian Data Analysis. : Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, and Donald B. Rubin. London: Chapman and Hall, 1995. xix + 526 pp. $60.50. Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis. : Bradley P. Carlin and Thomas A. Louis. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1996. xi + 399 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by M. Elizabeth Halloran Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. : C. M. Bishop. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvii + 482 pp. $55. Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks. : B. D. Ripley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. vii + 403 pp. $52.95. Reviewed by Nicholas Lange Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice. : W. R. Gilks, S. Richardson, and D. J. Spiegelhalter (Eds.). London: Chapman and Hall, 1996. xvii + 486 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by Robert E. Kass Numerical Bayesian Methods Applied to Signal Processing. : Joseph J. K. O'Ruanaidh and William J. Fitzgerald. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. xiv + 244 pp. $52.95. Reviewed by Nalini Ravishanker Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting. : Peter J. Brockwell and Richard A. Davis. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. xiii + 420 pp. $64.95. Reviewed by Lynne Seymour Simulation (2nd ed.). : Sheldon M. Ross. San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. xii + 282 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by Tom Kepler A Primer for the Monte Carlo Method. : Ilya M. Sobol'. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1994. 107 pp. $44.95. Reviewed by Bruce Jay Collings Probability: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory (2nd ed.). : John W. Lamperti. New York: Wiley, 1996. ix + 189 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Paul Embrechts Bonferroni-Type Inequality With Applications. : J. Galambos and I. Simonelli. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. ix + 269 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by Paul Embrechts Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: A Modeling, White Noise Functional Approach : Helge Holden, Bernt Øksendal, Jan Ubøe, and Tuscheng Zhang. Boston, Basel, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1996. 230 pp. $64.50. Reviewed by A. Schöttl Festschrift for Luclen Le Cam: Research Papers In Probability and Statistics. : David Polland, Erik Torgersen, and Grace L. Yang (Eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997. xxxiii + 435 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by Karen Kafadar A Course in Stochastic Processes. : Denis Bosq and Hung T. Nguyen. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. x + 351 pp. $235. Reviewed by Satish Iyengar Theory of Statistics. : Mark J. Schervish. New York: Springer, 1995. 702 pp. $65.95. Reviewed by Carlos A. de B. Pereira and Telba Irony Robust Statistical Procedures, Asymptotics and Interrelations. : Jana Jurečková and Pranab SEN. New York: Wiley, 1996. xiv + 465 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by Ola Hössjer Statistical Methods: A Geometric Primer. : David J. Saville and Graham R. Wood. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. xi + 268 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by James W. Neill Matrix Analysis for Statistics. : James R. Schott. New York: Wiley, 1996. xii + 426 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by Karen Kafadar Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Updated Vol. 1. : Samuel Kotz, Campbell Read, and David Banks (Eds.). New York: Wiley, 1997. xii + 568 pp. $149. Reviewed by Karen Kafadar Discrete Multivariate Distributions. : Norman L. Johnson, Samuel Kotz, and N. Balakrishnan. New York: Wiley, 1997. xxii + 299 pp. $79.95. Reviewed by Karen Kafadar Total Positivity and Its Applications. : Mariano Gasca and Charles A. Micchelli (Eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer. 1996. x + 518 pp. $196. Reviewed by Ingram Olkin Topics in Advanced Econometrics. : Herman J. Bierens. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 258 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by Alexander J. McNeil Geographical & Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small-Area Studies. : P. Elliott, J. Cuzick, D. English, and R. Stern (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. $56.50. Reviewed by Karen Kafadar The Craft of Scientific Writing (3rd ed.). : Michael Alley. New York: Springer, 1996. xv + 282 pp. $24.95. Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences. : Nicholas J. Higham. Philadelphia: SIAM, 1993. ix + 241 pp. $23.25. Reviewed by Karen Kafadar