Book Reviews

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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900. Theodore M. Porter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. xii + 333 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900. Stephen M. Stigler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. xvi + 410 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions. National Research Council, Committee on Population. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1986. ix + 108 pp. $10.00. (paperback). Reviewed by Nathan Keyfitz

Population Growth and Economic Development: Policy Questions. National Research Council, Committee on Population. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1986. ix + 108 pp. $10.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Andrea Tyree

Advances in the Social Sciences, 1900–1980: What, Who, Where, How? Karl W. Deutsch, Andrei S. Markovits, and John Platt (eds.). Cambridge, MA: Abt Books; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. xvii + 460 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $23.50 (paperback). Reviewed by David L. Sills

New Tools for Social Scientists. William D. Berry and Michael S. Lewis-Beck (eds.) Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1986. 288 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Christopher H. Achen

Working Lives: The American Work Force Since 1920. John D. Owen. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1986. x + 218 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Lois B. Shaw

Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the United States. Rachel Ann Rosenfeld. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. xiii + 354 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by J. C. van Es

ESRC Data Archive Catalogue: Guide and Index. ESRC Data Archive Catalogue: Study Descriptions. Marcia Freed Taylor (ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. Guide and Index: xvi + 225 pp.; Study Descriptions: vii + 540 pp. $90.00 (set). Reviewed by Richard C. Rockwell

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Data Used to Allocate Funds. Bruce D. Spencer. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1980. viii + 296 pp. $17.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Michael L. Cohen

Analysis of Panel Data. Cheng Hsiao. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. x + 246 pp. $39.50. Reviewed by Gary Solon

Elementary Survey Sampling (3rd ed.). Richard L. Scheaffer, William Mendenhall, and Lyman Ott. Boston: Duxbury Press, 1986. xi + 324 pp. $32.50. Reviewed by Ronald Czaja

Impacts of Microcomputers on Operations Research. Saul I. Gass, Harvey J. Greenberg, Karla L. Hoffman, and R. Warren Langley (eds.). New York: North-Holland, 1986. viii + 255 pp. $59.00. Reviewed by Roger Alan Pick

Modern Methods for Quality Control and Improvement. Harrison M. Wadsworth, Kenneth S. Stephens, and A. Blanton Godfrey. New York: John Wiley, 1986. xiii + 690 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Robert B. Miller

Principles of Management Science. Paul Newbold. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. xiv + 704 pp. $33.95. Reviewed by James G. Morris

Statistical Techniques for Analytical Review in Auditing. Kenneth W. Stringer and Trevor R. Stewart. New York: John Wiley, 1986. xiv + 301 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Ella Mae Matsumura Reviewed by Kam-Wah Tsui

The Statistics of Natural Selection. Bryan F. J. Manly. London: Chapman & Hall, 1985. xv + 484 pp. $55.00. Reviewed by R. Dennis Cook

Methodological Issues for Health Care Surveys. Brenda G. Cox and Steven B. Cohen. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1985. xx + 446 pp. $65.00. Reviewed by Donna Brogan

Epidemiology of Occupational Health. M. Karvonen and M. I. Mikheev (eds.). Geneva: World Health Organization Regional Publications, 1986. 392 pp. Sw. fr. 48. Reviewed by Evelyn J. Bromet Reviewed by David K. Parkinson

Fundamentals of Biostatistics (2nd ed.). Bernard Rosner. Boston: Duxbury Press, 1986. xvii + 584 pp. $39.25. Reviewed by Richard G. Cornell

The Design and Analysis of Clinical Experiments. Joseph L. Fleiss. New York: John Wiley, 1986. xiv + 432 pp. $37.50. Reviewed by Richard G. Cornell

A Guide to Statistical Methods and to the Pertinent Literature. Lothar Sachs. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. xi + 212 pp. $25.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Gudmund R. Iversen

Contrast Analysis: Focused Comparisons in the Analysis of Variance. Robert Rosenthal and Ralph L. Rosnow. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1985. x + 107 pp. $27.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Joel R. Levin

Probability and Statistics (Vols. 1 & 2). D. Dacunha-Castelle and M. Duflo (David McHale, trans.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. Vol. 1: vi + 362 pp.; Vol. 2: xiv + 410 pp. $32.50 each. Reviewed by John J. Birch

Testing Statistical Hypotheses (2nd ed.). E. L. Lehmann. New York: John Wiley, 1986. xx + 600 pp. $45.95. Reviewed by Hari Mukerjee

Classification Algorithms. Mike James. New York: John Wiley, 1985. xii + 211 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Ronald C. Pruitt

Stochastic Differential Systems (Lecture Notes In Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 78). N. Christopeit, K. Helmes, and M. Kolmann (eds.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986. vi + 372 pp. $28.20. Reviewed by Harold Kushner

Point Processes and Their Statistical Inference (Probability: Pure and Applied, Vol. 2). Alan F. Karr. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1986. xi + 490 pp. $89.75 (U.S.A. and Canada); $107.50 (all other countries). Reviewed by Richard F. Serfozo

Empirical Processes with Applications to Statistics. Galen R. Shorack and Jon A. Wellner. New York: John Wiley, 1986. xxxvii + 938 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by Dennis D. Boos

Long-Range Forecasting: From Crystal Ball to Computer (2nd ed.). J. Scott Armstrong. New York: John Wiley, 1985. xxiii + 689 pp. $22.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Robert J. Genetski

Time Series Analysis. Jonathan D. Cryer. Boston: Duxbury Press, 1986. xi + 286 pp. $38.00. Reviewed by Mark W. Watson

Contiguity and the Statistical Invariance Principle. P. E. Greenwood and A. N. Shiryayev. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1985. viii + 236 pp. $39.00. Reviewed by Paul D. Feigin

Racetrack Betting. Peter Asch and Richard E. Quandt. Dover, MA: Auburn House, 1986. xi + 195 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Donald Hausch

Random Data (2nd ed). Julius S. Bendat and Allan G. Piersol. New York: John Wiley, 1986. xvii + 566 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Jonathan D. Cryer

Combinatorial Theory (2nd ed.). Marshall Hall, Jr. New York: John Wiley, 1986. xv + 440 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by James A. Calvin

Characterization Problems Associated with the Exponential Distribution. T. A. Azlarov and N. A. Volodin (Margaret Stein, trans.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986, 135 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by John P. Klein

Potential Theory. J. Bliedtner and W. Hansen. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986. xii + 434 pp. $40.00. Reviewed by Thomas S. Salisbury