Book Reviews

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An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods, and Applications. Peter Schmidt and Ann D. Witte. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1984. xiv + 416 pp. $60.00. Reviewed by Christopher J. Flinn

An Ecomonic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods, and Applications. Peter Schmidt and Ann D. Witte. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1984. xiv + 416 pp. $60.00. Reviewed by Alan E. Gelfand

S: An Interactive Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics. Richard A. Becker and John M. Chambers. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1984. xii + 550 pp. $23.95 (paperback).

Extending the S System. Richard A. Becker and John M. Chambers. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1985. viii + 166 pp. $14.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Kinley Larntz

Linear Statistical Analysis of Discrete Data. Mikel Aickin. New York: John Wiley, 1983. xvi + 358 pp. $36.95. Reviewed by Diccon Bancroft

Classification and Regression Trees. Leo Breiman, Jerome H. Friedman, Richard A. Olshen, and Charles J. Stone. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1984. x + 370 pp. $21.95 (hardback); $13.95 (paperback). Reviewed by John Van Ryzin

Issues in Data Synthesis (New Directions for Program Evaluation, No. 24). William H. Yeaton and Paul M. Wortman (Eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984. vi + 95 pp. $8.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Kenneth A. Feldman

Notes on Social Measurement: Historical and Critical. Otis Dudley Duncan. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1984. xiii + 256 pp. $14.50. Reviewed by Anthony Oberschall

Causal Models in the Social Sciences (2nd ed.). Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. (Ed.). New York: Aldine, 1985. x + 287 pp. $49.95 (hardback); $24.95 (paperback).

Causal Models in Panel and Experimental Designs. Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. (ed.). New York: Aldine, 1985. x + 448 pp. $49.95 (hardback); $24.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Richard Campbell

Say It With Figures (6th ed.). Hans Zeisel. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. xvi + 272 pp. $14.50 cloth; $7.95 paper. Reviewed by David L. Sills

Probability in Social Science. Samuel Goldberg. Boston: Birkhauser, 1982. xii + 119 pp. $18.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Reviewed by Wallace Franck

The Statistical Exorcist: Dispelling Statistics Anxiety. Myles Hollander and Frank Proschan. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1984. xi + 247 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Richard E. Barlow

Statistical Inference. Vijay K. Rohatgi. New York: John Wiley, 1984. xiv + 940 pp. $44.95. Reviewed by Ronald H. Randles

Applied Probability and Statistical Methods. George C. Canavos. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. xvi + 608 pp. $29.95.

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (5th ed.). Paul G. Hoel. New York: John Wiley, 1984. x + 435 pp. $28.95.

Dice, Data and Decisions: Introductory Statistics. K. W. Kemp. New York: Halsted Press, 1984. 314 pp. $64.95. Reviewed by J. Van Bowen, Jr.

Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists (3rd ed.). Ronald E. Walpole and Raymond H. Myers. New York: Macmillan, 1985. xiii + 639 pp. $30.00.

Probability and Statistics for Engineers (3rd ed.). Irwin Miller and John E. Freund. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985. x + 530 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Stephen B. Vardeman

Statistics: Difficult Concepts, Understandable Explanations. Dale E. Mattson. Chicago: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1984. xiii + 482 pp. $18.50 (paperback). Reviewed by David Hosmer

Using Statistics for Psychological Research: An Introduction. James Thomas Walker. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. xxi + 585 pp. Reviewed by Arnold D. Well

Computer Processing of Social Science Data Using OSIRIS IV. Judith Rattenbury, Paula Pelletier, Laura Klem. Ann Arbor, MI: Institute of Survey Research, 1984. xiv + 182 pp. $22.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Roger J. Pijacki

Making Effective Use of Mailed Questionnaires. Daniel C. Lockhart (Ed.). New Directions for Program Evaluation Series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984. 102 pp. $8.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Andrew M. Kulley

Demography Through Problems. Nathan Keyfitz and John A. Beekman. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984. viii + 141 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by William J. Serow

Specification, Estimation, and Analysis of Macroeconometric Models. Ray C. Fair. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. 479 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by E. Philip Howrey

The Forecasting Accuracy of Major Time Series Methods. S. Makridakis, A. Andersen, R. Carbone, R. Fildes, M. Hibon, R. Lewandowski, J. Newton, E. Parzen, and R. Winkler. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley, 1984. viii + 301 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Robert B. Litterman

Statistical Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns. Peter J. Diggle. New York: Academic Press, 1983. ix + 148 pp. $25.00.

Spatial Statistics. Brian D. Ripley. New York: John Wiley, 1981. x + 252 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by S. K. Katti

Nonparametric Functional Estimation. B. L. S. Prakasa Rao. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1983. xiv + 522 pp. $70.00. Reviewed by V. Susarla

An Introduction to Probability Theory (rev. ed.). P. A. P. Moran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. viii + 542 pp. $19.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Bert Fristedt

Probability and Information (3rd ed., in English). A. M. Yaglom and I. M. Yaglom. Boston: D. Reidel, 1983. xx + 421 pp. $69.00. Reviewed by Thomas M. Cover

Asymptotic Methods in Queueing Theory A. A. Borovkov. New York: John Wiley, 1984. xi + 292 pp. $47.95. Reviewed by D. P. Kennedy

Comparison Methods for Queues and Other Stochastic Models. Dietrich Stoyan (edited with revisions by Daryl J. Daley). Chichester, NY: John Wiley, 1983. xiii + 217 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Ward Whitt