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Abstract Statistics and Public Policy. William B. Fairley and Frederick Mosteller (eds.). Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1977. xiv + 397 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Lee R. Abramson Analyzing the Criminal Justice System. J.W. LaPatra. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1978. xv + 173 pp. $16.00. Reviewed by Jan M. Chaiken New Developments in the Applications of Bayesian Methods. Ahmet Aykac and Carlo Brumat (eds.). Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company; New York: Elsevier/North Holland Publishing Company, 1977. xxiv + 385 pp. $40.95. Reviewed by Christopher B. Barry Mathematical Tools for Applied Multivariate Analysis. Paul E. Green and J. Douglas Carroll. New York: Academic Press, 1976. xiii + 376 pp. $24.50. Statistical Inference in Continuous Time Economic Models. A.R. Bergstrom (ed.). Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company; New York: Elsevier/North Holland, Inc., 1976. x + 333 pp. $42.50. Reviewed by Jan Kmenta Stochastic Processes: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory. John Lamperti. New York: Springer-Verlag, Inc., 1977. xvi + 266 pp. $9.80. Reviewed by Peter F. Thall Interactive Forecasting: Univariate and Multivariate Methods, 2nd Edition. Spyros Makridakis and Steven C. Wheelwright. San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1977. xxiii + 650 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Dean W. Wichern The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition. Richard A. Epstein. New York: Academic Press, 1977. xv + 450 pp. $19.50. Reviewed by David Heath Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. N.M. Downie and A.R. Starry. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1977. ix + 362 pp. $11.50. Reviewed by Cathy Campbell Applied Operations Research: A Survey. Gary E. Whitehouse and Ben L. Wechsler. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1976. xi + 434 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by D.R. Atkins Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics, 3rd Edition. Leonard J. Kazmier. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1978. xv + 646 pp. $13.95 ($10.95 paperback). Reviewed by Kenneth J. White Statistics for Business and Economics, 3rd Edition. Stephen P. Shao. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1976. v + 815 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Jan Kmenta Statistics for Management. Richard I. Levin. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. vi + 568 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Jerry Lacava Basic Econometrics: An Introductory Text for Economists. Michael S. Common. New York: Longman Publishing Company, 1976. x + 517 pp. $23.50 ($14.95 paperback). Reviewed by Charles Wolf, Jr. Economic Aspects of Regional Welfare, Income Distribution and Unemployment. Cornells P.A. Bartels. Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977. x + 261 pp. $16.00 (paperback). Reviewed by James P. Smith Electric Energy Availability and Regional Growth. G.S. Tolley, C.W. Upton, and V.S. Hastings. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977. xxi + 238 pp. $17.50. Reviewed by V. Kerry Smith Stochastic Approaches to Water Resources, Volumes I and II. Hsieh Wen Shen (ed.). Fort Collins, Colo.: H.W. Shen, 1976. Volume I: xiii + 506 pp; Volume II: v + 510 pp. $25.00 (set). Reviewed by V. Kerry Smith The Price Index. S.N. Afriat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. xv + 187 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Angus Deaton A Half Century of Returns on Stocks and Bonds. Lawrence Fisher and James H. Lorie. Chicago: The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, 1977. xiv + 174 pp. $32.50. Reviewed by Michael A. Simkowitz Statistical Reasoning in Sociology, 3rd Edition. J.H. Mueller, K.F. Schuessler, and H.L. Costner. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1977. xvi + 544 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Otis Dudley Duncan Applied Statistics in Atmospheric Science. Part A: Frequencies and Curve Fitting. O. Essenwanger. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, 1976. xi + 412 pp. $53.95. Reviewed by Patrick L. Odell Migraciones Internas: Teoria, Metodo y Factores Sociologicos. Juan C. Elizaga and John J. Macisco, Jr. Santiago, Chile: Centro Latino-Americano de Demografia, 1975. 615 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by George Povey Techniques de la Description Statistique. L. Lebart, A. Morineau, and N. Tabard. Paris: Bordas, Dunod, Gauthier-Villars, 1977. viii + 351 pp. $25.20. Reviewed by Stanley W. Nash Einführung in die Mathematische Statistik: Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Grundlagen der Mathematischen Statistik. D. Rasch. Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1976. 371 pp. $18.90. Reviewed by Siegfried Schach Einführung in die Statistik. Fritz Pokropp. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1977. 315 pp. $13.00. Reviewed by Robert J. Buehler