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Abstract Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. II, William Feller. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1966. Pp. xviii, 626. $12.00. Reviewed by Joshua Chover Equality of Educational Opportunity. James S. Coleman, Ernest Q. Campbell, Carol J. Hobson, James McPartland, Alexander M. Mood, Frederic D. Weinfeld, and Robert L. York. Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. pp. vi+737. $4.25. (Also a set of Correlation Tables, separately bound, is available for the use of research workers.) Reviewed by Robert J. Havighurst Federal Tax Policy. Joseph A. Pechman. Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1966. Pp. xxi, 321. Reviewed by Peter Diamond Aplied Regression Analysis. N. R. Draper and H. Smith. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1966, pp. ix, 407. Reviewed by C. L. Mallows Statistical Analysis in Psychology and Education. George A. Ferguson. New York: McGraw-Hill Series in Psychology. 2nd ed. 1966. 448 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by H. Fairfield Smith Research for Marketing Decisions. Paul E. Green and Donald S. Tull, Prentice-Hall 1966, pp. 532. $13.25. Reviewed by Kristian S. Palda Inventory Systems. Eliezer Naddor, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. 1965, pp. 341. Reviewed by Ronald L. Gue Matrix Algebra for the Biological Sciences, S. R. Searle. New York: Wiley, 1966, Pp. 296. Reviewed by Rolf E. Bargmann The Monte Carlo Method. N. P. Buslenko, D. I. Golenko, Yu. A. Shreider, I. M. Sobel, and V. G. Sragovich. Edited by Yu. A. Shreider, Pergamon Press, 1966, $12.50, 379 pp. Reviewed by Jess, I. Marcum Statistical Association Methods for Mechanized Documentation, Symposium Proceedings, Washington 1964, edited by Mary Elizabeth Stevens, Vincent E. Giuliano and Lawrence B. Heilprin. Washington D.C.: National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication 269, 1965. Pp. vii, 261. $2.75. Reviewed by Vincent Hodgson OECD: “Techniques of Economic Forecasting.” An Account of the Methods of Short-Term Economic Forecasting used by the Governments of Canada, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States with an introduction by C. W. McMahon, Paris (1965), 173 pp. Reviewed by J. Sandee Public Health and Population Change. Mindel C. Sheps and Jeanne Clare Ridley, Editors. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1965. 557+xvii pp. Reviewed by Richard G. Cornell Classical and Contagious Discrete Distributions. Edited by G. P. Patil. Statistical Publishing Society, Calcutta (Distributed outside India by Pergamon Press), 1966. Pp. xiv, 552. $21.00. Reviewed by K. Subrahmaniam Statistical Inference I and II. Jerome C. R. Li, Ann Arbor Michigan. Edwards Brothers Inc. 1964. Vol. I pp. xix, 658; Vol. II pp. xiv, 575. $10.00 Each Volume. Reviewed by Robert J. Monroe Elementary Statistics; Second Edition. Paul G. Hoel. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1966. pp. viii, 351. Reviewed by Robert V. Hogg Tables of Bivariate Random Normal Deviates. P. V. Iyer Krishna and P. S. Simha. Defence Science Laboratory, Metcalfe House, Delhi-6. 1966, 120+iii pp. Reviewed by J. T. Webster Biometrika Tables for Statisticians, Volume 1 (Third Edition) Eds. E. S. Pearson and H. O. Hartley. Cambridge: The University Press, 1966, Pp. 264. $6.50. Tchebycheff Systems: With Applications in Analysis and Statistics, S. J. Karlin and W. J. Studden, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1966, 586+xviii pp.