The Search for the Ultimate Baseball Statistic

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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 2001, pp. xi + 340, $23.95. Reviewed by Todd E. Bodner

Statisticians of the Centuries by C. C. Heyde and E. Seneta (Eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. xii + 500, $45.95. Reviewed by Todd E. Bodner     

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,Quotations, Volume 19

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The Drummer Was the First to Die by Liza Pennywitt Taylor. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992, 309 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Sally C. Morton

Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage by William Rathje and Cullen Murphy. New York: HarperCollins, 1992, 250 pp., $23.00 (ISBN 0-06-016603-7). Reviewed by Stephen E. Fienberg     

Seven Days in May: The Teacher in Apocalypse

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Point: “A balanced, well-rounded, meticulously documented account.” Reviewed by Nathan Glazer

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza, New York: The Free Press, 1991, x, 319 pp., $19.95.

Counterpoint: “A sulphury vision of higher education Hell.” Reviewed by Michael A. Olivas     

How to Choose Winning Lottery Numbers—Secret Ways to Win Big Money

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The New Bookstore in Town—Books Found on the Shelf

Reasoning with Statistics, Third ed. by Frederick Williams. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1986, 224 pp., $16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-03-019536-5). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte, Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1990, 126 pp., $48., hardcover (ISBN 0-961-3921-1-8). Reviewed by William F. Eddy     

A Capital Place for Dining

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An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis : Alan Agresti, New York: Wiley, 1996, 312 pp. Reviewed by Carolyn J. Anderson     

Book Reviews

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How to Think About Statistics by John L. Phillips, Jr. New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1992, 256 pp., $23.95 (hardcover), $14.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

News from the National Research Council. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Vol. I Review and Recommendations, Vol. II Technical Papers edited by Constance F. Citro and Eric A. Hanushek. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1991, two volumes, 346 and 351 pp. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

On Combining Information: Statistical Issues and Opportunities for Research Panel on Statistical Issues and Opportunities for Research in the Combination of Information. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1992. Reviewed by John E. Rolph     

Random Ranking of Hospitals is Unsound

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Randomness by Deborah J. Bennett. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, 238 pages. Reviewed by Karen E. Feasel

Understanding U.S.A. Edited by Richard Saul Wurman, Newport, RI: TED Conferences, Inc., 1999, 324 pp.; illustrated; $25. Reviewed by Howard Wainer     

Scientific Inferences and Environmental Health Problems

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Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables by J. S. Long, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, xxx + 297 pp. Reviewed by Ulf Böckenholt

Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ross Perot by Howard Wainer, New York: Copernicus, 1997, xi + 180 pp. Reviewed by James O. Ramsay     

Statistics: Decisions through Data

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Regression Graphics: Ideas for Studying Regressions Through Graphics by R. Dennis Cook, New York: Wiley, 1998, xviii + 349 pp. Reviewed by William G. Jacoby

Misused Statistics: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by H.F. Spirer, L. Spirer, and A.J. Jaffe, New York: Dekker, 1998. Reviewed by Arnold Barnett     

Seeing through Statistics

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Introduction to Graphical Modelling by David Edwards, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995, 274 pp. Reviewed by Garry Robins

Introduction to Graphical Modelling by David Edwards, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995, 274 pp. Reviewed by Garry Robins

Graphical Models by Steffen L. Lauritzen, Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1996, 298 pp. Reviewed by Garry Robins     

Book Reviews

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Housing America in the 1980s by John S. Adams. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1988, 352 pp., $65 hardcover (ISBN 0-97154-003-7). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer     

Slightly Suicidal: The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School by Peter Cohen

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Faculty and Teacher Bargaining: The Impact of Unions on Education edited by George W. Angell, Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, x + 114 pages, $15.95.

Unions and Universities: The Rise of the New Labor Leader, by Joel Denker, Montclair, New Jersey: Allanheld, Osmun, 160 pages, $20.00.     

Statistical Whigmaleeries

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An Introduction to Regression Graphics by R. Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg New York: John Wiley, 1994, xiii + 253 pp., 2 disks. Hardcover: US $54.95, ISBN 0-471-00839-7. Reviewed by John D. Fox     

Book Reviews

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An Introduction to the Bootstrap by Bradley Efron and Robert J. Tibshirani. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1993, 436 pp. Reviewed by Michael A. Martin     

Transforming the Physical Environment for Learning

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Everything Looks Impressive by Hugh Kennedy. New York: Doubteday, 1993, $10.00.

Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, $13.95.

Also Cited: Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures From The End Of The Eighteenth Century To The Present by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Coming Of Age In New Jersey: College In American Culture by Michael Moffatt. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.

Stover At Yale by Owen Johnson. New York: Collier Books, 1968 (originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912).

The Plastic Age by Percy Marks. New York: Grosset &; Dunlap, 1924.     

Missing an Easy Mark: Radicals in the University,by Edward E. Ericson,Jr.

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Undergraduate Admissions: The Realities of Institutional Policies, Practices, and Procedures by College Board Publications, Princeton, New Jersey: 1981, $8.50.     

Letters to the Editors

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice by W. R. Gilks, S. Richardson, and D. J. Spiegelhalter, New York: Chapman &; Hall, 1996, 486 pp. Reviewed by John W. McDonald     

Book Reviews

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The Mathematical and Computational Sciences in Emerging Manufacturing Technologies and Management Practices by Avner Friedman, James Glimm, and John Lavery. Philadelphia: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1992, 86 pp., free (ISBN 0-89871-307-2). Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

The Physics of Chance by Charles Ruhla. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1992, 222 pp., $55 (hardcover), $27.95 (paperback) (ISBN 0-19-853960-6). Translated by G. Barton. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer

The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation edited by Constance F. Citro and Graham Kalton. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1993, 284 pp. Reviewed by Michael M. Meyer     

Adjustments of Minority Group Test Scores Used in Employment Referrals

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Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy Over Census Undercounts by Harvey Choldin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994, x + 264 pp. Reviewed by Daniel Scott Smith

Modern Applied Statistics With S-Plus® by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994, 462 pp. Reviewed by John I. Marden     

Valuing: Parents

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Americans in Transition: Life Changes as Reasons for Adult Learning by Carol B. Aslanian and Henry M. Brickell, Princeton, New Jersey: College Board Publications, 1980, 170 pages, $10.75.