Book Reviews

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Statistics: Concepts and Controversies (2nd ed.). David S. Moore. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1985. xvii + 350 pp. $19.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Reviewed by Janice A. Gifford

Surveying Subjective Phenomena. Charles F. Turner and Elizabeth Martin (eds.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1985. xvi + 495 pp. $37.50 (Vol. 1); xvi + 617 pp. $47.50 (Vol. 2). $75.00 (2-vol. set). Reviewed by Manfred Kuechler

Federal Longitudinal Surveys. Subcommittee on Federal Longitudinal Surveys, Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. Washington, DC: Office of Management and Budget, 1986. v + 159 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert W. Pearson

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1985. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986. vi + 125 pp. No charge. Reviewed by Harry A. Scarr

Report of the Committee on the Records of Government. Committee on the Records of Government. Washington, DC: Council on Library Resources, 1985. 191 pp. No charge. Reviewed by Judith S. Rowe

Indicators of Precollege Education in Science and Mathematics: A Preliminary Review. S. A. Raizen and L. V. Jones (eds.). Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1985. ix + 200 pp. $16.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Robert J. Mislevy

The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Joseph P. Goldberg and William T. Moye. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985. ix + 321 pp. $15.00 (cloth); $10.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Margaret E. Martin

Social System Accounts: Linking Social and Economic Indicators Through Tangible Behavior Settings. Karl A. Fox. Boston: D. Reidel, 1985. xv + 221 pp. $29.00. Reviewed by Steven B. Caldwell

Dynamics of Income Distribution. John Creedy. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. ix + 170 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Daniel J. Slottje

Consumer Durable Choice and the Demand for Electricity. Jeffrey A. Dubin. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985. xix + 265 pp. $49.50. Reviewed by Lester D. Taylor

The Second Paycheck: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Earnings. Alice Nakamura and Masao Nakamura. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1985. xv + 509 pp. $38.00. Reviewed by M. Anne Hill

Sharing Research Data. Stephen E. Fienberg, Margaret E. Martin, and Miron L. Straf (eds.). Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1985. viii + 225 pp. $17.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Marvin Zelen

Secondary Analysis of Survey Data. K. Jill Kiecolt and Laura E. Nathan. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985. 88 pp. $5.00 (paperback).

The Logic of Causal Order. James Davis. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985. 72 pp. $5.00 (paperback). Reviewed by seymour sudman

Introduction to Causal Analysis: Exploring Survey Data by Crosstabulation. Ottar Hellevik. Boston. Allen & Urwin, 1984. xxiii + 211 pp. $13.50 (paperback). Reviewed by James H. Kuklinski

Stochastic Processes in Demography and Their Computer Implementation. Charles J. Mode. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985. xviii + 389 pp. $70.00. Reviewed by Thomas J. Espenshade

Introduction to Variance Estimation. Kirk M. Wolter. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985. xii + 428 pp. $48.00. Reviewed by Benjamin F. King

Plots, Transformations, and Regression: An Introduction to Graphical Methods of Diagnostic Regression Analysis. A. C. Atkinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xiv + 282 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by James S. Hodges

Statistical Modeling. Warren Gilchrist. New York: John Wiley, 1984. xv + 339 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Emmanuel Yashchin

Nonparametric Methods in General Linear Models. Madan L. Puri and Pranab K. Sen. New York: John Wiley, 1985. xii + 399 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Thomas P. Hettmansperger

Sequential Analysis: Tests and Confidence Intervals. David Siegmund. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985. xi + 272 pp. $32.00. Reviewed by Michael Woodroofe

Stationary Sequences and Random Fields. Murray Rosenblatt. Boston: Birkhauser, 1985. 258 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Melvin J. Hinich

Limit Theorems for Sums of Random Variables. A. A. Borovkov (ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985. xii + 301 pp. $64.00. Reviewed by Robert Lee Taylor

Statistical Analysis of Finite Mixture Distributions. D. M. Titterington, A. F. M. Smith, and U. E. Makov. Chichester, U. K.: John Wiley, 1985. x + 243 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Bruce G. Lindsay

The Apocalyptics: How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know About Cancer. Edith Efron. New York: Simon Schuster, 1985. 590 pp. $19.95 (cloth); $10.95 (paper).

Toxic Terror: The Truth About the Cancer Scare. Elizabeth M. Whelan. Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1985. xvi + 348 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Marvin A. Schneiderman

Statistics in Ornithology. B. J. T. Morgan and P. M. North (eds.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985. xxv + 418 pp. $29.60 (paperback). Reviewed by Douglas H. Johnson

Birth Times: A Scientific Investigation of the Secrets of Astrology. Michel Gauquelin (Sarah Matthews, trans.). New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. ix + 202 pp. $7.95 (paperback). Reviewed by I. J. Good

An Introduction to Statistical Quality Control. Douglas C. Montgomery. New York: John Wiley, 1985. xviii + 520 pp. $36.95. Reviewed by Asit P. Basu

Think and Explain With Statistics. Lincoln E. Moses. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1986. xii + 483 pp. $28.95.

Statistics: A Conceptual Approach. K. Laurence Weldon. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. xix + 442 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Gudmund R. Iversen

Stat City: Understanding Statistics Through Realistic Applications (2nd ed.). Howard S. Gitlow and Rosa Oppenheim. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1986. xv + 245 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by David S. Moore

Probability Theory and Harmonic Analysis. J.-A. Chao and W. A. Woyczynski (eds.). New York: Marcel Dek-ker, 1986. viii + 291 pp. $59.75 (U.S.A. and Canada); $71.50 (all other countries). Reviewed by Terry R. McConnell

Measure Theory and Probability. Malcolm Adams and Victor Guillemin. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1986. xiv + 203 pp. $32.40. Reviewed by Andrew Rosalsky