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Abstract Abstract Proceedings of the Computer Science and Statistics: 12th Annual Symposium on the Interface.: Jane F. Gentleman (ed.). Waterloo. Ontario, Canada: University of Waterloo, 1979, xiii + 500 pp. $25.00 C. $22.50 U.S. Reviewed by Paul F. Velleman Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and Its Applications.: Albert W. Marshall and Ingram Olkin. New York: Academic Press, 1979, xx + 569 pp. $49.50. Reviewed by Barry C. Arnold Reversibility and Stochastic Networks.: F.P. Kelly, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979, viii + 230 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Marcel F. Neuts Finite Markov Processes and Their Applications.: Marius Iosifescu. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1980, 295 pp. $32.50. Reviewed by Dean Isaacson Problems in Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics and Theory of Random Functions.: A.A. Sveshnikov (ed.). New York: Dover Publications, 1978, ix + 481 pp. $6.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Lynne Billard Probability, Statistics, and Queueing Theory, With Computer Science Applications.: Arnold O. Allen. New York: Academic Press, 1978, xvi + 390 pp. Reviewed by Pall R. Milch Digital Methods for Signal Analysis.: K.G. Beauchamp and C.K. Yuen, Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, Inc., 1979, xv + 316 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Louis L. Scharf Optimizing Methods in Statistics.: Jagdish S. Rustagi (ed.). New York: Academic Press, 1979, xx + 556 pp. $34.00. Reviewed by P.K. Sen Randomization Tests.: Eugene S. Edgington, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1980, xii + 287 pp. $29.50. Reviewed by Bert F. Green The Analysis of Time Series: Theory and Practice.: C. Chatfield, New York: Halsted Press, Division of John Wiley, & Sons, 1975, xiv + 263 pp. $19.75. Reviewed by Gregory Reinsel Econometrics (2nd ed.).: Ronald J. Wonnacott and Thomas H. Wonnacott. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979, xxii + 580 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Joseph P. Newhouse Forecasting in Business and Economics.: Clive W.J. Granger. New York: Academic Press, 1980, x + 226 pp. $17.50. Reviewed by Dean W. Wichern Statistics for Business and Economics.: William R. Heitzman and Frederick W. Mueller, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1980, xv + 670 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Robert F. Ling Statistical Quality Control (5th ed.).: Eugene L. Grant and Richard S. Leavenworth. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1980, xiv + 684 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Gary L. Tietjen Statistics for Technology: A Course in Applied Statistics (2nd ed.).: Christopher Chatfield. New York: Halsted Press. Division of John Wiley & Sons. Inc., 1978, 370 pp. $9.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Roger H. Moore Statistical Inference From Capture Data on Closed Animal Populations.: David L. Otis, Kenneth P. Burnham, Gary C. White, and David R. Anderson, Washington, D.C.: The Wildlife Society, 1978, 135 pp. $3.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Richard F. Green Statistics: A Fresh Approach (2nd ed.).: Donald H. Sanders, A. Franklin Murph, and Robert J. Eng. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1980, xviii + 428 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by John Emerson Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.: Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross, Engelwood Cliffs. N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Inc., 1980, xvi + 334 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Howard J. Weiner Theory Construction and Data Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences (A volume in honor of Louis Guttman).: Samuel Shye (ed.) San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1978, xx + 426 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Thomas S. Wallsten Fire Department Deployment Analysis: A Public Policy Analysis Case Study—The RAND Fire Project.: Warren E. Walker, Jan M. Chaiken, and Edward J. Ignall (eds.). New York: Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., 1979, xxi + 673 pp. $34.50. Reviewed by Werner Z. Hirsch