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Abstract Abstract Analysis and Design of Certain Quantitative Multiresponse Experiments; S.N. Roy, R. Gnanadesikan and J.N. Srivastava. Oxford: Pergamon Press Ltd., 1971. x + 304 pp., $8.50. Reviewed by Donald F. Morrison A Short-Run Forecasting Model of the United States Economy; Ray C. Fair. Lexington: Heath Lexington Books, 1971. xii + 264 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Michael D. McCarthy Estimation in Linear Models; Truman O. Lewis and Patrick L. Odell. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. xi + 193 pp., $11.00. Reviewed by George Zyskind Computer Programs for Elementary Decision Analysis; Robert Schlaifer. Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1971. xi + 247 pp., $12.00. Reviewed by Robert F. Ling Multitype Branching Processes; Charles J. Mode. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1971. xx + 330 pp., $23.50. Reviewed by Edward Pollak Significance Tests; Evelyn Caulcott. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. xviii + 145 pp., $8.50. Reviewed by Joseph B. Kadane Statistics: With A View Toward Applications; Leo Breiman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. xiv + 399 pp., $14.95. Reviewed by Joseph B. Kadane The Wharton Quarterly Econometric Forecasting Model Mark III; Michael D. McCarthy. Philadelphia: Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, 1972. 199 pp., $8.00. Reviewed by Michael D. Hurd Elementary Statistical Methods; G. Barrie Wetherill. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1972. xiii + 329 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Richard A. Johnson Interdependent Systems: Structure and Estimation; Ernest J. Mosbaek and Herman O. Wold. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1970. xxii + 542 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by G. S. Maddala Introduction to Probability; John E. Freund. Encino, California: Dickenson Publishing Company, Inc., 1973. viii + 247 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Walter R. Pirie Success Epochs in Bernoulli Trials with Applications in Number Theory; W. Vervaat. Amsterdam: Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, 1972. iii + 166 pp. $5.50 paperback. Reviewed by J. Galambos An Introduction to Statistical Science in Agriculture, Fourth Edition; D.J. Finney. New York: Halsted Press, 1972. 290 pp. $ 17.95. Reviewed by D. F. Cox Applied Statistics in Decision-Making; George K. Chacko. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1971. xv + 491 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Gordon Antelman Lectures in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics; Stefan Zubrzycki. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1973. xi + 321 pp. $14.50. Reviewed by Stephen M. Stigler Basic Medical Statistics; Anita K. Bahn. New York: Grune and Stratton, Inc., 1972. ix + 260 pp. $9.75 paperback. Reviewed by B. S. Pasternack Letters on Probability; Alfréd Rényi. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973. 86 pp. $2.95 paperback