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Abstract Abstract Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown (3rd ed.).; Judith M. Tanur, Frederick Mosteller, William H. Kruskal, Erich L. Lehmann, Richard F. Link, Richard S. Pieters, and Gerald R. Rising (eds.). Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, 1989. xxvii + 284 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Craig D. Turnbull Taking Risks: The Science of Uncertainty.; Peter Sprent. London: Penguin, 1988. 264 pp. $8.95 (paperback). Reviewed by T. H. Wonnacott Polls and Surveys: Understanding What They Tell Us.; Norman M. Bradburn and Seymour Sudman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988. xx + 249 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Peter H. Rossi Statistical Reasoning in Law and Public Policy: (Vol. 1) Statistical Concepts and Issues of Fairness; (Vol. 2) Tort Law, Evidence, and Health.; Joseph L. Gastwirth. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1988. Vol. 1: xxii + 465 pp.; Vol. 2: viii + 458 pp. $84.50 each. Reviewed by David H. Kaye Statistical Methods in Discrimination Litigation.; D. H. Kaye and Mikel Aickin (eds.). New York: Marcel Dekker, 1986. x + 218 pp. $49.75. Reviewed by Delores A. Conway Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.).; Jacob Cohen. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988. xxi + 567 pp. $55. Reviewed by Peter A. Lachenbruch How Many Subjects? Statistical Power Analysis in Research.; Helena Chmura Kraemer and Sue Thiemann. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1987. 120 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Constantine A. Gatsonis Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data.; Robert F. Woolson. New York: John Wiley, 1987. xx + 513 pp. $44.95. Reviewed by Richard G. Cornell Statistics for the Life Sciences.; Myra L. Samuels. San Francisco: Dellen, 1989. xi + 597 pp. $38.75. Reviewed by Richard G. Cornell Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Volume 3: The Design and Analysis of Long-Term Animal Experiments (IARC Scientific Publication 79); J. J. Gart, D. Krewski, P. N. Lee, R. E. Tarone, and J. Wahrendorf (eds.). Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1986. x + 219 pp. $45 (available from Oxford University Press). Reviewed by Robert A. Wolfe Parameter Estimation in Reliability and Life Span Models.; A. Clifford Cohen and Betty Jones Whitten. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1988. xv + 394 pp. $69.75 (U.S.A. & Canada); $83.50 (elsewhere). Reviewed by Subhash C. Kochar Extreme Value Theory in Engineering.; Enrique Castillo. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1988. xv + 389 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by James Pickands III Unified Theory and Strategies of Survey Sampling.; A. Chaudhuri and J. W. E. Vos. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988. xvii + 414 pp. $92.75. Reviewed by M. P. Singh Plane Answers to Complex Questions: The Theory of Linear Models.; Ronald Christensen. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987. xiv + 380 pp. $42. Reviewed by Alan Fenech Empirical Model Building.; James R. Thompson. New York: John Wiley, 1989. xiv + 242 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Marjo V. Smith Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Discrete Multivariate Data.; Timothy R. C. Read and Noel A. C. Cressie. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988. xi + 211 pp. $44. Reviewed by Kinley Larntz Optimal Design and Analysis of Experiments.; Yadolah Dodge, Valeri V. Federov, and Henry P. Wynn (eds.). Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988. ix + 370 pp. $105.25. Reviewed by William I. Notz Characterizations and Analysis of Block Designs.; A. K. Nigam, P. D. Puri, and V. K. Gupta. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern, 1988. viii + 176 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Angela Dean Combinatorial Theory and Statistical Design.; Gregory M. Constantine. New York: John Wiley, 1987. xiv + 472 pp. $52.95. Reviewed by Angela Dean Matrix Differential Calculus With Applications in Statistics and Econometrics.; Jan R. Magnus and Heinz Neudecker. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley, 1988. xvii + 393 pp. $51.95. Reviewed by Isabella Verdinelli Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations.; Thomas C. Gard. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1988. xi + 234 pp. $65 (U.S.A. & Canada); $78 (elsewhere). Reviewed by Shelemyahu Zacks Coordinate-Free Multivariable Statistics: An Illustrated Progression From Halmos to Gauss and Bayes.; Mervyn Stone. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1987. xiv + 120 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Steven Arnold Probability Distributions on Banach Spaces.; N. N. Vakhania, V. I. Tarieladze, and S. A. Chobanyan (W. A. Woyczynski, trans.). Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1987. xxvi + 482 pp. $99. Reviewed by Joel Zinn