Book Reviews

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Abstract Quantitative Methods in Biological and Medical Sciences: A Historical Essay. H. O. Lancaster New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994. xvii + 297 pp. $69. Reviewed by Lynne Billard University of Georgia Statistical Methods In Medical Research: Developments in Clinical Trials. Edmund A. Gehan and Noreen A. Lemak. New York: Plenum, 1994. ix + 214 pp. $39.50. Reviewed by Thomas A. Louis University of Minnesota The Bayesian Choice: A Decision-Theoretic Motivation. Christian P. Robert. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994. xiv + 436 pp. $49. Reviewed by Malay Ghosh University of Florida The Inverse Gaussian Distribution: A Case Study in Exponential Families. V. Seshadri. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xi + 256 pp. $60. Reviewed by Bent Jørgensen University of British Columbia Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text. David G. Kleinbaum. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994. xii + 367 pp. $49. Reviewed by Steve Selvin University of California, Berkeley Modern Applied Statistics With S-Plus. W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994. xii + 462 pp. $39. Reviewed by Brett Presnell University of Florida Measurement, Regression, and Calibration. Philip J. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix + 201 pp. $45. Reviewed by Esteban Walker University of Tennessee Introduction to Disjunctive Kriging and Nonlinear Geostatistics. Jacques Rivoirard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. ix + 181 pp. $45. Reviewed by Douglas M. Hawkins University of Minnesota System Reliability Theory: Models and Statistical Methods. Arnljot Høyland and Marvin Rausand. New York: John Wiley, 1994. × + 518 pp. $41.45. Reviewed by Frank M. Guess University of Tennessee Machine Learning, Neural, and Statistical Classification. Donald Michie, David J. Spiegelhalter, and Charles C. Taylor. (Eds.) New York: Ellis Horwood, 1994. xiv + 289 pp. $67.95. Reviewed by John F. Elder IV Rice University Identification Problems In the Social Sciences. Charles Manski. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, × + 172 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Michael E. Sobel University of Arizona Parametric Statistical Theory. Johan Pfanzagl (with the assistance of R. Hamböker). New York: Walter De Gruyter, 1994. xiii + 374 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by Jaromir Anroch Charles University Time Series Analysis. James D. Hamilton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. 799 pp. $55. Reviewed by Benedikt M. Pötscher Universität Wien