Telegraphic Reviews

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Women in Mathematics: Scaling the Heights. Deborah Nolan. Providence, RI: The Mathematical Association of America, 1997. ISBN 0–88385–156–3. x + 121 pp. $29.95 (P). Reviewed by LD Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences. Samuel Kotz, Campbell Read, and David Banks (eds.) Updated Vol. 2. New York: Wiley, 1997. xii + 568 pp. $195 (H). Reviewed by KK Neyman. Constance Reid. New York: Springer, 1998. ISBN 0–387–98357–0. vii + 298 pp. $34.95 (P). Reviewed by KK Topics in Disordered Systems. Charles M. Newman. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1997. ISBN 3–7643–5777–0. viii + 88 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by PE Mathematical Tools for Applied Multivariate Analysis. J. Douglas Caroll, Paul E. Green, and Anil Chaturvedi, Rev. Ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. ISBN 0–12–160954–5. xiii + 376 pp. $69.95. Reviewed by SW Recent Advances In Descriptive Multivariate Analysis. Wojtek J. Krzanowski. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xiv + 354 pp. $60 (H); $14.95 (P). Reviewed by KK The Practice of Bayesian Analysis. S. French and J. Q. Smith. London: Arnold, 1997. ISBN 0–340–66240–9. xi + 284 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by MTW Bayesian Analysis in Econometrics and Statistics: The Zellner View and Papers. Arnold Zellner. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997. ISBN 1–85898–220–0. xvi + 554 pp. $100.00 (H). Reviewed by MTW Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics. Constantine Gatsonis, James S. Hodges, Robert E. Kass, Robert Mcculloch, Peter Rossi, and Nozer D. Singpurwalla (eds.) Vol. III. New York: Springer, 1997. ISBN 0–387–94990–9. xii + 471 pp. $44.95 (P). Reviewed by LD Stochastic Flows and Stochastic Differential Equations. H. Kunita. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0–52159925–3. x + 346 pp. $29.95 (P). Reviewed by MTW Advances in Combinatorial Methods and Applications to Probability and Statistics. N. Balakrishnan. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1997. xxxiv + 562 pp. $79.95. Reviewed by MTW Handbook of Statistics 3: Time Series in the Frequency Domain. D. R. Brillinger (Ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1983. ISBN 0–444–86726–0. xiv + 482 pp. $170.00. Reviewed by KK Handbook of Statistics 7: Quality Control and Reliability. P. R. Krishnaiah (Ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1988. ISBN 0–444–702903. xiv + 495 pp. $190.00. Reviewed by KK Sampling Inspection Tables: Single and Double Sampling. Harold F. Dodge and Harry G. Romig. New York: Wiley, 1998, 2nd ed. ISBN 0–471–25549–1. xi + 224 pp. $34.95 (P). KK