Book Reviews

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The National Halothane Study, J. P. Bunker, W. H. Forrest, Jr., Frederick Mosteller and Leroy D. Vandam. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1969. ix+318 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by M. Stone

New Developments in Survey Sampling, Norman L. Johnson and Harry Smith, eds. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1969. xvi+731 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by W. G. Cochran

Basic Statistics, David Blackwell. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1969. 143 pp. $5.50. Reviewed by Morris H. DeGroot

Discrete Distributions, Norman L. Johnson and Samuel Kotz. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969. 328 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Leo Katz

Practical Business Statistics, F. E. Croxton, D. J. Cowden and B. W. Bolch. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. 444 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Richard C. Clelland

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, Evan Clague. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. xv + 271 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Margaret E. Martin

Risk Theory, R. E. Beard, T. Pentikäinen and E. Pesonen. London: Methuen's Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics, 1969. xiv + 191 pp. $7.25. Reviewed by Karl Borch

The Theory of Buyer Behavior, John A. Howard and Jagdish N. Sheth. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1969. xv + 548 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by George H. Haines, Jr.

International Financial Decisions, Sune Carlson. London: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1969. 147 pp. $7.00. Reviewed by Andrew Schmitz

Cities and Housing, Richard F. Muth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. xxii + 355 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by Stan Czamanski

Analysis of Seasonal and Other Short-Term Variations with Applications to Finnish Economic Time Series, Pertti Kukkonen. Helsinki, Finland: Bank of Finland, Institute for Economic Research, Series B, No. 28, 1968. 136 pp. Reviewed by Allan H. Young

Basic Concepts of Measurement, Brian Ellis, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1968. 220 pp. $2.45. Reviewed by William M. Bart

Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences, Eugene J. Webb, Donald T. Campbell, Richard D. Schwartz and Lee Sechrest. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1966. 225 pp. $3.95. Reviewed by William M. Bart

Statistics in Political and Behavioral Science, Dennis J. Palumbo. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts Educational Division in Meredith Corp., 1969. xi + 395 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Edward R. Tufte

The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Outlook and Needs, National Academy of Sciences Social Science Research Council. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. xv+320 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Harold W. Stevenson

Education and Manpower: Theoretical Models and Empirical Calculations, Tore Thonstad. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1968. 162 pp. $9.25. Reviewed by K. T. Marshall

Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Biostatistics, Chin Long Chiang. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1968. 313 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Bartholomew P. Hsi

Principles of Statistical Techniques, Second Edition, P. G. Moore. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1969. 288 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by G. R. Chase

Introduction to the Mathematics of Population, N. Keyfitz. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1968. xiv + 450 pp. $13.50. Reviewed by Samuel Goldbeeg

Sampling Inspection and Quality Control, G. Barrie Wetherill. London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1969. viii + 128 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by D. B. O.