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Abstract Abstract The World of Probability: Statistics in Science. Solomon Diamond. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1964. Pp. vii, 193. $4.95. Reviewed by Roy R. Kuebler, Jr. Introduction to Probability Theory. James R. McCord, III and Richard M. Moroney, Jr. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964. Pp. xvi, 232. $6.50. Reviewed by J. G. Wendel Méthodes statistiques de l'économétrie. Edmond Malinvaud. Paris, France: Dunod, 1964. Pp. xiv, 634. 86 NF. Reviewed by Herman O. A. Wold Econometric Theory. Arthur S. Goldberger. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1964. Pp. xi, 399. Reviewed by John S. Chipman The Estimation of Probabilities: An Essay on Modern Bayesian Methods. I. J. Good. Research Monograph No. 30. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1965. Pp. vii, 109, $4.50. Reviewed by Bruce M. Hill The Elements of Stochastic Processes with Applications to the Natural Sciences. Norman T. J. Bailey. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1964. Pp. xi, 249. $7.95. Reviewed by Rupert G. Miller, Jr. Statistical Estimation in Factor Analysis, a new technique and its foundations. K. G. Jöreskog. Uppsala: Almquist and Wiksell, 1963, 145 pp. Reviewed by Rolf E. Bargmann Stochastic Models in Medicine and Biology. Edited by John Gurland. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 393. $6.00. Reviewed by Malcolm E. Turner A Theory of Data. Clyde H. Coombs. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Pp. xviii, 585. $14.95. Reviewed by Norman Cliff Psychological Tests and Personnel Decisions, Second Edition. Lee J. Cronbach and Goldine C. Gleser. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1965. Pp. xiv, 347. $7.95. Reviewed by Warren T. Norman Statistics for Scientists and Engineers. R, Lowell Wine. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964: Pp. xvi, 671. $9.00. Reviewed by W. Edwards Deming Probability and Statistics for Engineers. I. Miller and John E. Freund. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965. $16.00. Reviewed by Robert Hooke Statistics and Experimental Design in Engineering and the Physical Sciences in two volumes by N. L. Johnson and F. C. Leone. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1964. Volume I: $10.95. Volume II: $11.50. Reviewed by Dr. Howard Taylor Statistical Quality Control. Eugene L. Grant. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1964. Pp. xii, 610. $9.95. Reviewed by Sebastian B. Littauer Quantitative Decision Procedures in Management and Economics. Charles R. Carr and Charles W. Howe. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1964, 383 pp. Reviewed by Gordon Kaufman Experiments with Input-Output Models (An Application to the Economy of the United Kingdom 1948–55). A. Ghosh. Cambridge: University Press, 1964. Pp. xv, 148. $8.00. Reviewed by C. B. Tilanus Optimal Estimation, Identification, and Control. Robert C. K. Lee. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1964. $6.00. Reviewed by Dr. Melvin Hinich The Management of the British Economy, 1945–60. J. C. R. Dow. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1964. Pp. xix + 443. $11.50. Reviewed by Marc Nerlove Studies in the National Balance Sheet of the United States, Two Volumes. Raymond W. Goldsmith, Robert E. Lipsey, and Morris Mendelson. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1964. Vol. I, Pp. xxv, 433. Vol. II, Pp. xx, 531. $15.00 set. Reviewed by Tibor Barna The “Band” Proposal: The Limits of Permissible Exchange Rate Variations. George N. Halm. Special Papers in International Economics, No. 6 International Finance Section, Princeton University. Princeton: January 1965. Pp. 55. $1.00. Reviewed by Arthur I. Bloomfield Selected Bibliography on Non-Normality, H. Hyrenius, I. Adolfsson, et al., Publication Number 12, in Series A, Statistical Theory and Methods of the Department of Statistics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; sold by Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, 1964, pp. 1–108, price Kr. 8. Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Third Edition. Henry L. Alder and Edward B. Roessler. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1964, Pp. 313. $6.00. Libraries of the Future. J. C. R. Kicklider. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1965. Pp. xvii, 219, $6.00. Mathematical Analysis of Observations. B. M. Shchigolev, Translated from the Russian Scripta Technica Inc., Editor H. Eagle, New York, American Elsevier Publishing Company Inc., 1965, xv, 350, price $12.50. Tables of the Normal Probability Integral, the Normal Density, and its Normalized Derivatives. N. V. Smirnov, Editor. New York: Macmillan, 1965. Pp. 128.