Book Reviews

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Abstract Statistical Methods in Research and Production; Owen L. Davies and Peter L. Goldsmith (Editors). New York: Hafner Publishing Co., Inc., 1972. xiii + 478 pp., $16.00. Reviewed by John Mandel Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis; Richard O. Duda and Peter E. Hart. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1973. xvii + 482 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Ulf Grenander Applied Time Series Analysis for Managerial Forecasting; Charles R. Nelson. San Francisco: Holden-Day, Inc., 1973. xiv + 231 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by D. M. Dunn A Consumption-Savings Model and Its Applications; W. H. Somermeyer and R. Bannink. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1973. xvi + 431 pp. $34.75. Reviewed by Lester D. Taylor Monte Carlo Methods: Their Role for Econometrics; V. Kerry Smith. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1973. xiv + 153 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Roy F. Gilbert Distribution Theory for Tests Based on the Sample Distribution Function; J. Durbin. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1973. vi + 64 pp. $4.80 paperback. Reviewed by Philip Holgate Statistics and Society: Data Collection and Interpretation; Walter T. Federer. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1973. ix + 399 pp. $14.50. Reviewed by James W. Yackel Structural Equation Models in the Social Sciences; Arthur S. Goldberger and Otis Dudley Duncan (Editors). New York: Seminar Press Inc., 1973. xv + 358 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Lester D. Taylor Standard Statistical Calculations, 2nd Edition; P.G. Moore, E.A. Shirley and D.E. Edwards (Editors). New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1973. xi + 123 pp. $6.75. Reviewed by R. Dennis Cook Econometric Studies of Macro and Monetary Relations; Alan A. Powell and Ross A. Williams (Editors). New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1973. viii + 358 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Michael D. Hurd Spatial Autocorrelation; A.D. Cliff and J.K. Ord. London: Pion Limited, 1973. 178 pp. 2.50. Reviewed by Alexander Lebanon Multivariate Statistical Methods for Business and Economics; Ben W. Bolch and Cliff J. Huang. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974, xiv + 329 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by J. Kmenta Brief Reviews: Econometric Estimation; J.C.R. Rowley. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1973. ix + 234 pp. $14.50 Brief Reviews: Symmetric Functions in Statistics: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Professor Paul S. Dwyer; Derrick S. Tracy (ed.). Windsor, Ontario: University of Windsor, 1972. 224 pp. $4.50 paperback Brief Reviews: 5th Conference on Optimization Techniques; R. Conti and A. Ruberti (eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1973. Part I, xiii + 565 pp. $14.70, paperback. Part II, xiii + 389 pp. $10.80, paperback Brief Reviews: Inventory Control and Water Storage; A. Prékopa (ed.). New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1974. 382 pp. $28.00 Brief Reviews: Symposium on the Theory of Scheduling and Its Applications; S.E. Elmaghraby (ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1974. viii + 437 pp. $13.20 paperback