Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials

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Basic Business Statistics: A Casebook. Dean Foster, Robert A. Stine, and Richard P. Waterman. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997, 256 pp., $29.95, ISBN: 0-387-98246-9. Reviewed by Marlene Smith

Business Analysis Using Regression: A Casebook. Dean Foster, Robert A. Stine, and Richard P. Waterman. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997, ix + 341 pp., $29.95, ISBN: 0-387-98245-0. Reviewed by Marlene Smith

The Assessment Challenge in Statistics Education. I. Gal and J.B. Garfield (eds.). The Netherlands: IOS Press and The International Statistical Institute, 1997, xii + 284 pp., $65.00, ISBN: 90-5199-3331. Reviewed by Bernadette Russek

Elementary Bayesian Statistics. Gordon Antelman. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997, xv + 459 pp., $120, ISBN: 1-85898-504-8. Reviewed by Thomas H. Short

Interactive Statistics: Preliminary Edition. Martha Aliaga and Brenda Gunderson. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998, viii + 423 pp., $37.33, ISBN: 0-13-894767-8. Reviewed by Robert N. Goldman

Practical Guide to Experimental Design. Normand L. Frigon and David Mathews. New York: Wiley, 1997, x + 342 pp., $59.95, ISBN: 0-471-13919-X. Reviewed by William C. Parr

Modern Elementary Statistics (9th ed.). John E. Freund and Gary A. Simon. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997, xii + 612 pp., $71.00 (H), ISBN: 0-13-858291-2. Reviewed by Carolyn Pillers Dobler

A First Course in Statistics (6th ed.). James T. McClave and Terry Sincich. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997, xix + 519 pp., $68.00 (H), ISBN 0-13-579277-0. Reviewed by Carolyn Pillers Dobler

Statistics (7th ed.). James T. McClave, Frank H. Dietrich, II, and Terry Sincich. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997, xxi + 823 pp., $73.00 (H), ISBN 0-13-471657-4. Reviewed by Carolyn Pillers Dobler

The Texas Instruments TI-83 Graphing Calculator. Price: $125. Available for prices under $90 from various office-supply and mail order houses. Reviewed by John C. Nash