Book Reviews

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Applied Multivariate Analysis S. James Press. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1972. xix + 521 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Leon Jay Gleser

Statistics for Management and Economics, 2nd Edition William Mendenhall and James E. Reinmuth. North Scituate, Mass.: Duxbury Press, 1974. xi + 596 pp. $13.00. Reviewed by Robert B. Miller

Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch L. E. Maistrov (Translated from the Russian and edited by Samuel Kotz). New York: Academic Press, 1974. xiii + 281 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Stephen M. Stigler

The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem; William J. Adams. New York: Kaedmon Publishing Company, 1974. 119 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Stephen M. Stigler

Multiple Regression in Behavioral Research Fred N. Kerlinger and Elazar J. Pedhazur. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1973. x + 534 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Janet Dixon Elashoff

Panel Analysis: Latent Probability Models for Attitude and Behavior Processes Lee M. Wiggins. New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1973. xvi + 255 pp. $14.20. Reviewed by Otis Dudley Duncan

Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists Lawrence D. Phillips. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. x + 373 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by David A. Schum

Nonparametric Methods in Multivariate Analysis Madan Lal Puri and Pranab Kumar Sen. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1971. xi + 440 pp. $24.75. Reviewed by M. Raghavachari

Design of Experiments: A Realistic Approach Virgil L. Anderson and Robert A. McLean. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1974. xvii + 418 pp. $14.75. Reviewed by Satish Chandra

Numerical Taxonomy: The Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification Peter H.A. Sneath and Robert R. Sokal. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1973. xv + 573 pp. $19.50. Reviewed by G.P. McCabe

To Stop or Not To Stop: Some Elementary Optimal Stopping Problems With Economic Interpretations Björn Leonardz. New York: Halsted Press, 1974. 178 pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Chandra M. Gulati

Statistical Methods for the Earth Scientist: An Introduction Roger Till. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1974. xv + 154 pp. $11.75. Reviewed by Peter J. Hudleston

Statistical Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments Charles Lipson and Narendra J. Sheth. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1973. xx + 518 pp. $15.50. Reviewed by M.W. Hume

Commonsense Statistics for Economists and Others F.R. Jolliffe. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. ix + 174 pp. $9.50. Reviewed by C.F. Manski

Handbook of Applied Mathematics: Selected Results and Methods Carl E. Pearson (ed.). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1974. xiii + 1265 pp. $37.50. Reviewed by Joseph B. Kadane

A First Course in Probability and Statistics Henrik J. Malik and Kenneth Mullen. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1973. xii + 361 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Kenny Crump

Index to Statistics and Probability: Permuted Titles (in two volumes) Ian C. Ross and John W. Tukey. Los Altos, California: The R and D Press, 1975, xxviii + 1588 pp. $105.00 per set. Reviewed by Morris H. DeGroot

Index to Statistics and Probability: Locations and Authors Ian C. Ross and John W. Tukey. Los Altos, California: The R and D Press, 1974, xxiii + 1092 pp. $80.00. Reviewed by Morris H. DeGroot

Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions, 4th Edition Harold Bierman, Jr., Charles P. Bonini and Warren H. Hausman. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1973. xii + 527 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Robert L. Winkler

Basic Statistics with Business Applications, 2nd Edition Richard C. Clelland, John S. deCani and Francis E. Brown. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1973. xii + 691 pp. $14.50. Reviewed by Robert L. Winkler

Multiple Criteria Decision Making James L. Cochrane and Milan Zeleny (eds.). Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. xiv + 816 pp. $25.00, clothbound; $9.95, paperback. Reviewed by Robert L. Winkler

Statistical Inference: Basic Concepts Richard B. Ellis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975. xiv + 258 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Roger H. Moore

Statistical Distributions: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners N.A.J. Hastings and J.B. Peacock. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1975. xiii + 130 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Roger H. Moore

Statistics for Math Haters Elijah P. Lovejoy. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1975. x + 275 pp. $8.95, paperback. Reviewed by David S. Moore

Introduction to Stochastic Processes Erhan Çinlar. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975. x + 402 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by P. K. Sen

Introduction to Econometrics: Principles and Applications Harry H. Kelejian and Wallace E. Oates. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1974. xi + 300 pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Dennis J. Aigner

Topics in Applied Econometrics Kenneth F. Wallis. London: Gray-Mills Publishing Ltd., 1973. 136 pp. £3.50, cloth; £1.25, paperback. Reviewed by Dennis J. Aigner.

Statistics and Econometrics: A Problem-Solving Text Barry R. Chiswick and Stephen J. Chiswick. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1975. xiii + 261 pp. $10.75, paperback. Reviewed by Dennis J. Aigner