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Abstract Studies In Inductive Logic and Probability (Vol. II).: Richard C. Jeffrey (ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980, 305 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Mark J. Schervish Finite Generalized Markov Programming.: P.J. Weeda. Amsterdam: Mathematisch Centrum, 1979. vii + 127 pp. Dfl. 16, 80 (paperback) Reviewed by Martin L. Puterman Correlation and Causation. David A. Kenny. New York: John Wiley, 1979. xiii + 277 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert F. Ling Scientific Strategies to Save Your Life: A Statistical Approach to Primary Prevention (Vol. 35 of Statistics: Textbooks and Monographs).: Irwin D.J. Bross. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1981. v + 259 pp. $19.75. Reviewed by Malcolm J. Sherman Incomplete Block Designs (Lecture Notes in Statistics, Vol. 1).: Peter W.M. John. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1980. vii + 101 pp. $17.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Oscar Kempthorne Exploratory and Explanatory Statistical Analysis of Spatial Data.: Cornelis P.A. Bartels and Ronald H. Ketellapper (eds.). Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1979. xii + 268 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Larry D. Haugh An Introduction to Statistical Sampling in Auditing.: Dan M. Guy. New York: John Wiley, 1981. xvi + 229 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Frederic M. Stiner, Jr. Distributed Lags: Problems of Estimation and Formulation (2nd revised ed).: Phoebus J. Dhrymes. Amsterdam and New York: North-Holland, 1981. x + 470 pp. $36.50/Dfl. 75.00. Reviewed by Peter Schmidt Regression Analysis and Its Application: A Data-Oriented Approach.: Richard F. Gunst and Robert L. Mason. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1980. xiv + 402 pp. $39.75 Applied Linear Regression.: Sanford Weisberg. New York: John Wiley, 1980. xii + 283 pp. $24.95 Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity.: David A. Belsley, Edwin Kuh, and Roy E. Welsch. New York: John Wiley, 1980. xv + 292 pp. $21.95 Reviewed by Kenneth J. Koehler Measurement of Respondent Burden: Study Design and Early Findings (BSSR Report No. 0529–08).: Joanne Frankel, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Social Science Research, 1980. xi + 106 pp. $6.00 (paperback) Reviewed by Robert D. Tortora The Effect of the Demographics of Individual Households on Their Telephone Usage.: Belinda B. Brandon (ed.). Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1981. xvii + 405 pp. $35.00 Reviewed by Jeff Seaman Probability and Statistics in Particle Physics.: A.G. Frodesen, O. Skjeggestad, and H. Tøfte. Bergen, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1979. xvii + 501 pp. $35.00 Reviewed by Dan Lurie The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data.: John D. Kalbfleisch and Ross L. Prentice. New York: John Wiley, 1980. xi + 321 pp. $24.95 Reviewed by A. Clifford Cohen Finite Mathematics.: Ronald I. Rothenberg. New York: John Wiley, 1980. xii + 283 pp. $7.95 (paperback) Reviewed by Leone Y. Low Statistics: A First Course (3rd ed.).: John E. Freund. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. xiv + 466 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Takamaru Ashikaga Statistics: Meaning and Method (2nd ed.).: Lawrence Lapin. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. xxii + 543 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by James L. Rosenberger An Introduction to Data Analysis.: Bruce D. Bowen and Herbert Weisberg. San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman, 1977. x + 213 pp. $15.95 ($7.95 paperback) Reviewed by Takamaru Ashikaga Applied Statistics for Engineers (2nd ed.).: William Volk. New York: Robert E. Krieger, 1980. xii + 415 pp. $20.50. Reviewed by Mohamed F. El-Sabbagh Probability and Statistics in Engineering and Management Science (2nd ed.).: William W. Hines and Douglas C. Montgomery. New York: John Wiley, 1980. xvi + 634 pp. $22.95 Reviewed by Toke Jayachandran