Book Reviews

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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Blases. Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky (eds.), New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xiii + 555 pp. $44.50 ($14.95 paperback). Reviewed by Glenn R. Shafer

Expected Utility Hypotheses and the Allais Paradox. Maurice Allais and Ole Hagen (eds.). Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing, 1979. vii + 714 pp. $86.85. Reviewed by Glenn R. Shafer

The Mathematical Experience. Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. xix + 440 pp. $9.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Theodore Chang

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences—Vol. 1: A—Circular Probable Error. Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson (editors-in-chief) and Campbell B. Read (associate editor). New York: John Wiley, 1982. x + 480 pp. $75.00. Reviewed by Roger H. Moore

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences—Vol. 2: Classification—Eye Estimate. Samuel Kotz and Norman L. Johnson (editors-in-chief) and Campbell B. Read (associate editor). New York: John Wiley, 1982. viii + 613 pp. $75.00. Reviewed by Roger H. Moore

An Introduction to Contemporary Statistics. Lambert H. Koopmans. Boston: Duxbury Press, 1981. xx + 599 pp. $20.95. Reviewed by W. Robert Stephenson, Oscar Kempthorne

Applied Statistics: Principles and Examples. D.R. Cox and E.J. Snell. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1981. viii + 189 pp. $32.00 ($14.95 paperback). Reviewed by Robert F. Ling

Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis. Richard A. Johnson and Dean W. Wichern. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. xiii + 594 pp. $32.95. Reviewed by Peter C. O'Brien

Aspects of Multivariate Statistical Theory. Robb J. Muirhead. New York: John Wiley, 1982. xix + 673 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by P.K. Sen

Experiments With Mixtures: Designs, Models, and the Analysis of Mixture Data. John A. Cornell. New York: John Wiley, 1981. xvii + 305 pp. $30.95. Reviewed by Kinley Larntz

Factorial Designs. B.L. Raktoe, A. Hedayat, and W.T. Federer. New York: John Wiley, 1981. xii + 209 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Raymond H. Myers

Life Testing and Reliability Estimation. S.K. Sinha and B.K. Kale. New York: Halsted Press, 1980. vi + 196 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Albert H. Moore

The Sequential Statistical Analysis of Hypothesis Testing, Point and Interval Estimation, and Decision Theory. Z. Govindarajulu. Columbus, OH: American Sciences Press, 1982. ix + 680 pp. $48.50 (paperback). Reviewed by N. Mukhopadhyay

Spectral Analysis and Time Series (Vols. 1 & 2). M.B. Priestley. London: Academic Press, 1981. Vol. 1: 702 pp. $119.50; Vol. 2: 274 pp. $49.50 ($39.50 joint paperback). Reviewed by Emanuel Parzen

Applled Time Series Analysis (Vol. II). David F. Findley (ed.). New York: Academic Press, 1981. xii + 798 pp. $49.50. Reviewed by David A. Dickey

The Professional Forecaster: The Forecasting Process Through Data Analysis. James P. Cleary and Hans Levenbach. Belmont, CA: Lifetime Learning Publications, 1982. xi + 402 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by John McKenzie

Prior Information in Linear Models. Helge Toutenburg. New York: John Wiley, 1982. ix + 215 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Mark J. Schervish

Recent Advances in Regression Methods. Hrishikesh D. Vinod and Aman Ullah. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1981. xii + 361 pp. $39.50. Reviewed by R. Carter Hill

Stochastic Methods in Economics and Finance. A.G. Malliaris and W.A. Brock. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982. xviii + 303 pp. $39.75. Reviewed by Patrick L. Brockett, Samuel H. Cox

An Integrated System of World Models. Ram Dayal. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1981. xviii + 398 pp. $42.50. Reviewed by Per Lundborg

Spatial Processes: Models and Applications. A.D. Cliff and J.K. Ord. London: Pion, Ltd., 1981. 266 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Brian D. Ripley

Indicators of Crime and Criminal Justice: Quantitative Studies. Stephen E. Fienberg and Albert J. Reiss, Jr. (eds.). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1980. v + 124 pp. (Paperback) Reviewed by Jan Chaiken

Linear Panel Analysis: Models of Quantitative Change. Ronald C. Kessler and David F. Greenberg. New York: Academic Press, 1981. x + 203 pp. $21.50. Reviewed by Charles H. Proctor

Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology. Klaus Krippendorff. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1980. 191 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Mack Shelley

Health: United States, 1982. National Center for Health Statistics. Hyattsville, MD: Department of Health and Human Services, 1982. vi + 191 pp. $7.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Ronald M. Andersen

Hematological and Nutritional Biochemistry Reference Data for Persons 6 Months-74 Years of Age: United States, 1976–80. National Center for Health Statistics. Hyattsville, MD: Department of Health & Human Services, 1982. vi + 173 pp. $6.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Ronald M. Andersen

Social Security Bulletin: Annual Statistical Supplement, 1981. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1982. 272 pp. $7.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Ronald M. Andersen

Introduction to Data Analysis and Statistical Inference. Carl N. Morris and John E. Rolph. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981. xx + 389 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by William F. Taylor

Statistics for Research. Shirley Dowdy and Stanley Wearden. New York: John Wiley, 1983. xiv + 537 pp. Reviewed by W.A. Thompson, Jr.

Elementary Statistical Methods (3rd ed.). G. Barrie Wetherill. New York: Chapman & Hall, 1982. xiii + 356 pp. $14.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Diantha Howard

Basic Statistics for Business and Economics (3rd ed.). Paul G. Hoel and Raymond J. Jessen. New York: John Wiley, 1982. x + 629 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Leonard J. Tashman

Ecological Diversity in Theory and Practice. G.P. Patil (general editor) and Frederick J. Grassle, G.P. Patil, Woollcott Smith, and Charles Taillie (editors). Fairland, MD: International Co-operative Publishing House, 1979. xxiii + 375 pp. Reviewed by Samuel Zahl

Theory and Applications of Stochastic Differential Equations. Zeev Schuss. New York: John Wiley, 1980. xiii + 321 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Maury Bramson