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Introduction to Matrix Analysis (2nd ed.). Richard Bellman. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1997. ISBN 0-89871-399-4. xxviii + 403 pp. $32. (P). The Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem (Classics in Applied Mathematics, Number 20). Beresford N. Parlett. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1998. ISBN 0-89871-402-8. xxiv + 398 pp. $48 (P). On Being a Department Head: A Personal View. John B. Conway. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1996. ISBN 0-8218-0615-7. xi + 107 pp. $24 (P). Reviewed by SRJ Odds Ratios in the Analysis of Contingency Tables. Tamas Rudas. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. ISBN 0-7619-0362-3. vi + 79 pp. $11.95 (P). Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology. W. Paul Vogt. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993. ISBN 0-8039-5277-5. xiv + 253 pp. $25.50 (P). The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics. B. S. Everitt. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-59346-8. viii + 360 pp. $39.95. Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods. Bovas Abraham (Ed.). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1998. ISBN 0-8176-4052-5. xxxiii + 442 pp. $79.95. Recent Advances In Life-Testing and Reliability. N. Balakrishnan (Ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8493-8972-0. xxvi + 632 pp. $115. CRC Handbook of Tables for Order Statistics From Inverse Gaussian Distributions With Applications. N. Balakrishnan and William W. S. Chen. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8493-3118-8. xi + 688 pp. $99.95. Probability Towards 2000. L. Accardi and C. C. Heyde (Eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 0-387-98458-5. xi + 356 pp. $44.95 (P). Numerical Solution of SDE Through Computer Experiments. Peter E. Kloeden, Eckhard Platen, and Henri Shurz. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 3-540-57074-8. xiv + 292 pp. $54.95 (P). Numerical Methods in Finance. L. C. G. Rogers and D. Talay (Eds.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-521-57354-8. x + 326 pp. $54.95.