Book Reviews

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America. Michael Wheeler. New York: Liveright Publishing Co., 1976. xviii + 300 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Gerard E. Dallal

The Logical Foundations of Statistical Inference. Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. Boston, Mass.: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. ix + 427 pp. $14.75 (paperback). Reviewed by George F. Rhodes, Jr.

Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1976. xxviii + 569 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Peter C. Fishburn

Elementary Statistical Concepts. Ronald E. Walpole. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. viii + 231 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Richard S. Kleber

Understanding Statistics, 2nd Edition. William Mendenhall and Lyman Ott. North Scituate, Mass.: Duxbury Press, 1976. xi + 387 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Richard S. Kleber

Elementary Statistics, 2nd Edition. Robert R. Johnson. North Scituate, Mass.: Duxbury Press, 1976. xviii + 638 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Richard S. Kleber

Statistics. Norma Gilbert. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1976. ix + 364 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Richard S. Kleber

Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions. Chris Spatz and James O. Johnston. Monterey, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1976. xii + 380 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Richard S. Kleber

Advanced Geostatistics in the Mining Industry. Massimo Guarascio, M. David, and C. Huijbregts (eds.). Boston, Mass.: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Inc., 1976. xvi + 461 pp. $39.50. Reviewed by Geoffrey S. Watson

Social Information Processing and Statistical Systems—Change and Reform. Edgar S. Dunn, Jr. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1974. × + 246 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Richard C. Taeuber

Multivariate Statistical Methods in Behavioral Research. R. Darrell Bock. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975. xiii + 623 pp. $21.00. Reviewed by P.A. Lachenbruch

Statistics: A Guide to Business and Economics. J.M. Tanur, F. Mosteller, Wm. Kruskal, R.F. Link, R.S. Pieters, G.R. Rising, and E.L. Lehmann (eds.). San Francisco, Calif.: Holden-Day, Inc., 1976. xii + 132 pp. $3.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Stephen E. Fienberg

Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, Volume III. H.L. Harter and D.B. Owen. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1975. viii + 419 pp. $21.50. Reviewed by Joseph McKean

Normal Approximations and Asymptotic Expansions. R.N. Bhattacharya and R.R. Rao. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1976. xiv + 274 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by P.K. Sen

Markov Chains, Theory and Applications. Dean L. Isaacson and Richard W. Madsen. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1976. × + 256 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Chris Paige

Operations Research: Principles and Practice. Don T. Phillips, A. Ravindran, and James Solberg. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1976. xvii + 585 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Ronald A. Thisted