Book Reviews

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Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0–521–57391–2. x + 582 pp. $100. Reviewed by Thomas M. Loughin

Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sánchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN 0691028990, $35. (H); ISBN 0691028982, $14.95 (P). xii + 318 pp. Reviewed by James Sconing

Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve. Bernie Devlin, Stephen E. Fienberg, Daniel P. Resnick and Kathryn Roeder (Eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 0387982345, $59.95 (H); ISBN 0387949860, $27 (P). xi + 376 pp. Reviewed by James Sconing

A First Course in Multivariate Statistics. Bernard Flury. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 0–387–98206–X. xv + 713 pp. $79.95. Reviewed by Yasuo Amemiya

Modern Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications. Ingwer Borg and Patrick Groenen. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 0–3879–4845–7. xvii + 471 pp. $60.95. Reviewed by Ann A. O'Connell

Morphometric Tools for Landmark Data: Geometry and Biology. Fred L. Bookstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0–521–38385–4, $100 (H); ISBN 0–521–58598–8, $34.95 (P). vii + 435 pp. Reviewed by Subhash Lele

Practical Handbook of Spatial Statistics. Sandra L. Arlinghaus (Ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1996. ISBN 0–8493–0132–7. xv + 307 pp. $64.95. Reviewed by Karen Kafadar

Loss Models: From Data to Decisions. Stuart A. Klugman, Harry H. Panjer, and Gordon E. Willmot. New York: Wiley, 1998. ISBN 0–471–23884–8. xiii + 644 pp. $89.95. Reviewed by James D. Broffitt

Series Approximation Methods in Statistics (2nd Ed.). John E. Kolassa. Boston: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 0–387–98224–8. xi + 183 pp. $35 (P). Reviewed by James G. Booth

Statistics in Education. Ian Plewis. New York: Arnold/Wiley, 1997. ISBN 0471194875. xiii + 165 pp. $39.95 (P). Reviewed by Betsy Jane Becker

Econometrics. Badi H. Baltagi. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3–540–63617–X. xiv + 396 pp. $42 (P). Reviewed by Timothy J. Vogelsang

Forecasting: Methods and Applications (3rd Ed.). Spyros Makridakis, Steven C. Wheelwright, and Rob J. Hyndman. New York: Wiley, 1998. ISBN 0–471–53233–9. xiv + 642 pp. $87.95. Reviewed by William M. Briggs

Elements of Forecasting. Francis X. Diebold. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0–538–86244–0. xiii + 392 pp. $76.95. Reviewed by William M. Briggs

Time Series, Unit Roots, and Cointegration. Phoebus Dhrymes. San Diego: Academic Press, 1997. ISBN 0–12–214695–6. xiv + 524 pp. $89.95. Reviewed by Sung K. Ahn

Neural, Novel & Hybrid Algorithms for Time Series Prediction. Timothy MASTERS. New York: Wiley, 1995. ISBN 0–471–13041–9. xvii + 514 pp. $49.95 (P). Reviewed by Norman R. Swanson

Practical Nonparametric and Semiparametric Bayesian Statistics (Lecture Notes in Statistics 137). D. Dey, P. Müller, and D. Sinha (Eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 0–387–98517–4. xvi + 369 pp. $49.95 (P). Reviewed by Ram Tiwari

Log-Linear Models and Logistic Regression (2nd Ed.). Ronald Christensen. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 0–387–98247–7. xv + 483 pp. $64.95. Reviewed by Dirk F. Moore

Fundamentals of Queueing Theory (3rd Ed.). Donald Gross and Carl M. Harris. New York: Wiley, 1998. ISBN 0–471–17083–6. xi + 439 pp. $79.95. Reviewed by Susan M. Pitts

Computational Integration. Arnold R. Krommer and Christoph W. Überhuber. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1998. ISBN 0–89871–374–9. xix + 445 pp. $64 (P). Reviewed by Martin T. Wells

The DFT: An Owner's Manual for the Discrete Fourier Transform. William L. Briggs and Van Emden Henson. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1995. ISBN 0–89871–342–0. xv + 434 pp. $37.50 (P). Reviewed by Robert Strawderman

Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms. Nicholas J. Higham. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1996. ISBN 0–89871–355–2. xxviii + 688 pp. $39 (P). Reviewed by Robert L. Strawderman

Numerical Analysis: A Second Course. James M. Ortega. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1990. ISBN 0–89871–250–5. xii + 201 pp. $32.25 (P). Reviewed by Robert Strawderman

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Interaction Effects in Factorial Analysis of Variance. James Jaccard. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. ISBN 0–7619–1221–5. viii + 103 pp. $11.95 (P).

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Evolutionary Operation: A Statistical Method for Process Improvement. George E. P. Box and Norman R. Draper. New York: Wiley, 1998. ISBN 0–471–09305–X, $129 (H); ISBN 0–471–25551–3, $39.95 (P). xi + 237 pp.

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Mass Transportation Problems: Vol. I: Theory. Svetlozar T. Rachev and Ludger Rüschendorf. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 0–387–98350–3. xxv + 508 pp. $79.95.

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Mass Transportation Problems: Vol. II: Applications. Svetlozar T. Rachev and Ludger Rüschendorf. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 0–387–98352–X. xxv + 430 pp. $79.95.

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis 1662–1938. Judy L. Klein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0–521–42046–6. xix + 345 pp. $64.96.

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Financial Risk in Insurance. G. Ottaviani (Ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995. ISBN 3–540–57054–3. ix + 112 pp. $95.

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Mathematical Finance. M. H. A. Davis, D. Duffie, W. H. Fleming, and S. Shreve (Eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995. ISBN 0–387–94439–7. xv + 133 pp. $59.95.

TELEGRAPHIC REVIEWS: Epidemic Models: Their Structure and Relation to Data. Denis Mollison (Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0–521–47536–8. xvii + 424 pp. $54.95.