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278 [Part 2,

List of Books received for Review Abramov, A. A. Mathematical tables. Tables of In J(z) for complex argument. Translated

from the Russian by D. G. Fry. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, 1960. [4], 331 p. 91". 105s. (Mathematical Tables Series, 10.)

Akerman, Johan. Theory of industrialism: causal analysis and economic plans. Lund (Sweden), Gleerup, 1960. 332 p. 9-". Kr. 25. (Lund Social Science Studies, 19.)

Alder, Henry L. & Roessler, Edward B. Introduction to probability and statistics. San Francisco & London, W. H. Freeman, 1960. xi, 252 p. diagrs. 9". 20s.

Amundsen, Arne. Methods in family budget analysis. Oslo, Statistisk Sentralbyra, 1960. 24 p. 91". Kr. 2. (Artikler fra Statistisk Sentralbyra, 6.)

Andrews, P. W. S. & Friday, Frank A. Fair trade: resale price maintenance re-examined. London, Macmillan & Co., 1960. 84 p. 8-". 6s.

Armitage, P. Sequential medical trials. Oxford, Blackwell, 1960. [6], 105 p. 813". 20s. Arrow, Kenneth J. & others. Mathematical methods in the social sciences, 1959. Proceed-

ings of the First Stanford Symposium. Stanford (Calif.), University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. [8], 365 p. diagrs. 91". 68s. (Stanford Mathe- matical Studies in the Social Sciences, IV.)

Artle, Roland. Studies in the structure of the Stockholm economy: towards a framework for projecting metropolitan community development. Stockholm, Business Research Institute at the Stockholm School of Economics, 1959. x, 197 p. fold. table. 9"'. (Report 57.)

Bartlett, M. S. An introduction to stochastic processes with special reference to methods and applications. Cambridge, University Press, 1960. xiv, 312 p. 81". 22s. 6d.

Berkson, Joseph. Nomograms for fitting the logistic function by maximum likelihood. Biometrika (1960), 47, 121-141. London, Biometrika Office, 1960. 103". 5s. (New Statistical Tables Series XXIX.)

Bharucha-Reid, A. T. Elements of the theory of Markov processes and their applications. New York & London, McGraw-Hill, 1960. xi, 468 p. 9". 89s. (McGraw-Hill Series in Probability and Statistics.)

Blyth, Conrad. The use of economic statistics. London, Allen & Unwin, 1960. 249 p. 81". 28s. (Minerva Series of Students' Handbooks, 5.)

Bredo, William. Industrial estates: tool for industrialization. Chicago, Free Press of Glencoe, 1960. xvii, 240 p. photos. diagrs. 9". $6. (Publication of the International Development Center, Stanford Research Institute.)

Brown, Ernest W. An introductory treatise on the lunar theory. New York, Dover Publications, 1960; [London, Constable]. xvi, 292 p. 81". $2.

Brunk, H. D. An introduction to mathematical statistics. Boston, London, [etc.], Ginn, 1960. xi, 403 p. 13 tables. 9". 53s.

Carre, Phillipe. Etude empirique sur l'evolution des structures d'economies en etat de croissance (et perspectives nouvelles pour la formulation de programmes de developpe- ment). Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1960. 51 p. 91". 6 NF. (Monographies du Centre d'Econometrie, II.)

Chandrasekhar, S. Principles of stellar dynamics. New York, Dover Publications, 1960; [London, Constable]. x, 313 p. front. 81". $2.

Chao Kuo-Chun. Economic planning and organization in mainland China: a documentary study (1949-1957), Vol. II. Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. x, [2], 184 p. 10111. 32s.

Chauvenet, William. A manual of spherical and practical astronomy: embracing the general problems of spherical astronomy, the special applications to nautical astronomy, and the theory and use of fixed and portable astronomical instruments, with an appendix on the method of least squares. New York, Dover Publications, 1960; [London, Constable]. 2 vols. diagrs. 8". $5.50.

Chung, Kai Lai. Markov chains with stationary transition probabilities. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1960. ix, 278 p. 91". DM.65.60. (Die Grundlehren der mathema- tischen Wissenschaften, 104.)



1961] List of Books receivedfor Reviewv 279

Churchman, C. West & Verhulst, Michel. Management sciences, models and techniques: proceedings of the sixth international meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences, Conservatoire National des Arts & Metiers, Paris, 7-11 September, 1959. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, for the conference committee. 2 vols. 9k". 200s.

Clark, Charles E. & Holz, Betty Weber. Exponentially distributed random numbers. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1961; [London, Oxford University Press]. [10], 247 p. 10k". 52s.

Crow, Edwin L. & Gardner, Robert S. Table of confidence limits for the expectation of a Poisson variable. Biometrika (1959), 46, 441-453. London, University College, Biometrika Office. 103". 2s. 6d. (New Statistical Tables XXVIII.)

Cullingworth, J. B. Housing needs and planning policy: a restatement of the problems of housing need and "overspill" in England and Wales. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. xii, 218 p. 8k". 28s. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.)

Dacey, W. Manning. Money under review. London, Hutchison, 1960. 175 p. 81". 25s.

Dimock, Marshall E. Administrative vitality: the conflict with bureaucracy. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. xiii, 298 p. 83". 25s.

Dobb, Maurice. An essay on economic growth and planning. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. vii, 119 p. 8k". 15s.

Dynkin, E. B. Theory of Markov processes; translated from the Russian by D. E. Brown ... edited by T. Kovary. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, 1960. ix, 210 p. 8k". 60s.

Eastham, J. K. Graphical economics. London, English Universities Press, 1960. xiv, 333 p. 8k". 25s. (Management Science Series.)

Eisner, Gisela. Jamaica, 1830-1930: a study in economic growth. Manchester, University Press, 1961. xxiv, 399 p. 9". 50s.

Eizenga, W. Demographic factors and savings. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Co., 1961. x, 107 p. 8k". 20s.

Ekambaram, S. K. The statistical basis of quality control charts: a manual for business and factory managers. London, Asia Publishing House, 1960. x, [2], 96 p. 83". 16s.

Ferber, Robert. Collecting financial data by consumer panel techniques: a pilot study. Urbana (Ill.), University of Illinois, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, 1959. x, 177 p. 9". $2.50. (Studies in Consumer Savings, 1.)

Flagle, Charles D. & others. Operations research and systems engineering. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. x, 889 p. photo, diagrs. 9". 116s.

Forsythe, George E. & Wasow, Wolfgang R. Finite difference methods for partial differential equations. New York & London, John Wiley, 1960. x, 444 p. 9". 92s. (Applied Mathematics Series.)

Foster, F. G. & Rees, D. H. Tables of the upper percentage points of the generalized beta distribution. Biometrika (1957), 44, 237-247, 441-453; (1958), 45, 492-503. London, Biometrika Office. 30 p. 103". 5s. (New Statistical Tables XXVI.)

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Geneva. International Trade, 1959. Geneva, Gatt, 1960. 189 p. 9k". $2.

Germany [Bundesrepublik]. Statistisches Bundesamt. Stichproben in der amtlichen Statistik. Stuttgart und Mainz, W. Kohlhammer, 1960. 626 p. 8-". DM. 28.

Geronimus, Ya. L. Polynomial orthogonal on a circle and interval. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, 1960. ix, 210 p. 8k". 60s. (International Series on Applied Mathe- matics, 18.)

Gini, Corrado. Transvariazione. Rome, Libreria Goliardica, 1960. xii, 744, [4] p. 9j". (Memorie di metodologia statistica, 2.)

Goldberg, Samuel. Probability: an introduction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (U.S.A.), Prentice-Hall, 1960. xiv, 322 p. 8j". $7.95. (Prentice-Hall Mathematics Series.)

Goldfarb, Nathan. An introduction to longitudinal statistical analysis: the method of repeated observations from a fixed sample. Chicago, Free Press of Glencoe, 1960. xiii, 220p. 8k". $5.

Goodman, Richard, editor. Annual review in automatic programming, I: papers read at the working conference on automatic programming of digital computers held at Brighton, 1-3 April, 1959. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, 1960. xi, 300 p. 9!". 63s. (International Tracts in Computer Science & Technology and their Application.)



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Hannan, E. J. Time series analysis. London, Methuen, 1960. viii, 152 p. 7k". 21s. (Methuen's Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics.)

Harrod, Sir Roy. Topical comment: essays in dynamic economics applied. London, Macmillan & Co., 1961. [10], 265 p. 83". 25s.

Herdan, G. Small particle statistics: an account of statistical methods for the investigation of finely divided materials, . . . with a guide to the experimental design of particle size determinations by M. L. Smith, W. H. Hardwick, and P. Connor. 2nd ed. London, Butterworth, 1960. xxiii, 418 p. 9k". 80s.

Hicks, J. R. The social framework: an introduction to economics. 3rd ed. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960. xiii, 272 p. fold. table. 71". 18s.

International Labour Office. Labour survey of North Africa, Geneva, I.L.O., 1960. xiii, 473 p. map. 9j". 24s. (Studies & Reports, New Series, 60.)

Why labour leaves the land: a comparative study of the movement of labour out of agriculture. Geneva, I.L.O., 1960. viii, 229 p. 9j". 13s. 6d. (Studies & Reports, New Series, 59.)

Ireland, Central Statistics Office. Agricultural statistics, 1934-1956. Dublin, Stationery Office, 1960. x, 243 p. 12Y". 8s.

Johnston, J. Statistical cost analysis. New York & London, McGraw-Hill, 1960. ix, 197 p. 83'. 52s. 6d. (Economics Handbook Series.)

Jordan, Charles. Calculus of finite differences. New York, Chelsea Publishing Co., 1960. xxi, 652 p. 7311

Kaye, Barrington. Upper Nankin Street, Singapore: a sociological study of Chinese households living in a densely populated area. Singapore, University of Malaya Press, 1960; London, Oxford University Press. xvi, 439 p. 10 pl. illus. 82". 50s.

Kendall, Maurice G. & Buckland, William R. A dictionary of statistical terms, prepared for the International Statistical Institute with the assistance of UNESCO.... 2nd ed., with combined glossary in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish. Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, 1960. xi, 575 p. 8W". 32s.

A dictionary of statistical terms supplement: a combined glossary in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.... Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, 1960. [4], 83 p. 8 ". lOs. 6d.

Kenen, Peter B. British monetary policy and the balance of payments, 1951-1957. Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. xiv, [2], 325 p. 8". 60s. (Harvard Economic Studies, 115.)

Kurth, Rudolph. Axiomatics of classical statistical mechanics. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, 1960. x, 180 p. 8j". 45s. (International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Mathematics.)

Lange, Oskar. Essays on economic planning. London, Asia Publishing House, 1960. [iv], iii, 72 p. 11". 36s. (Indian Statistical Series, issued under the auspices of the Indian Statistical Institute, 4.)

Lippitt, Vernon G. Determinants of consumer demand for house furnishings. Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1959; [London, Oxford University Press]. xiv, [4], 172 p. 8 48s. (Harv. Econ. Stud. 110.)

Lynch, Patrick & Vaizey, John. Guiness's Brewery in the Irish economy, 1759-1876. Cambridge, University Press, 1960. [2], viii, 278, [4] p. front. (port.). photos. 83". 35s.

Machol, Robert E. Information and decision processes. New York & London, McGraw-Hill, 1960. xi, 185 p. 9". 46s.

MacMillan, William Duncan. Dynamics of rigid bodies. New York, Dover Publications, 1960; [London, Constable]. xiii, [3], 478 p. 8". $2.

Manning, Phyllis. A history of national investigation into the economics of milk production, 1934-1951. Oxford, The Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 1960. 83 p. 8'". 12s. 6d.

Maunder, W. F. Employment in an underdeveloped area: a sample survey of Kingston, Jamaica. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. xiv, 215 p. 81". 40s.

Mazumdar, Harendra Kumar. Business saving in India: an estimate and an analysis in relation to profitability and the growth of the national saving rate. Groningen, J. B. Wolters, 1959. xxv, 280 p. 9". fl. 16.50. (Issued under the auspices of the Netherlands Economic Institute.)



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Menzler, F. A. A. The Institute of Actuaries Students' Society: the first fifty years, 1910-1960, an appreciation. Prepared at the invitation of the committee of the society in connection with golden jubilee celebrations. London, Institute of Actuaries Students' Society, 1960. x, 166 p. 8X". 25s.

Morgan, E. Victor. The structure of property ownership in Great Britain. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960. xi, 207 p. 8X". 32s. 6d.

National Bureau of Economic Research. Capital in manufacturing and mining: its formation and financing; by Daniel Creamer, S. P. Dobrovolsky and I. Borenstein. Princeton University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. liv, 344 p. 9". $7.50. (Studies in Capital Formation & Financing, 6.)

Demographic and economic change in developed countries: a conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research.... Princeton, Uni- versity Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. xi, 536 p. 8k". $12. (Special Conference Series, 11.)

New measures of wage-earner compensation in manufacturing, 1914-1957. New York, N.B.E.R., 1960. ix, 26 p. 9". 75c. (Occasional Paper, 75.)

Personal deductions in the federal income tax; [by] C. Harry Kahn.... Princeton, University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. xxix, 237 p. 9". $5. (Fiscal Studies, 6.)

Soviet statistics of physical output of industrial commodities, their compilation and quality; by Gregory Grossman.... Princeton, University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. [16], 151 p. 9". $4.50. (General Series 69.)

Statistical measures of corporate bond financing since 1900; by W. Braddock Hickman and Elizabeth T. Simpson. Princeton, University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. xxx, 582 p. 1I'. $9. (Studies in Corporate Bond Financing, 1.)

Trends in the American economy in the nineteenth century ... by the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.... Princeton, University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. xii, 780 p. 9j1. $15. (Studies in Income & Wealth, 24.)

Wages in Germany, 1871-1945; by Gerhard Bry.... Princeton, University Press, 1960; [London, Oxford University Press]. xxvi, 486 p. 9". $10. (General Series, 68.)

Newcomb, Simon. A compendium of spherical astronomy with its applications to the determination and reduction of positions of the fixed stars. New York, Dover Publica- tions, 1960; [London, Constable]. xviii, 444 p. 71". $2.25.

Nixon, J. W. A history of the International Statistical Institute, 1885-1960. The Hague, International Statistical Institute, 1960. viii, 183 p. illus. 9k". 17s.

Olkin, Ingram and others, editors. Contributions to probability and statistics; essays in honor of Harold Hotelling. Stanford (Calif.) University Press, 1960. [London, Oxford University Press.] x, 517 p. 9". 52s. (Stanford Studies in Mathematics & Statistics, 2.)

Ottenheimer, J. Modeles econometriques et structure des nations. Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1960. 94 p. 9k". N.F. 11. (Monographies du Centre d'Econometrie, 1.)

Parzen, Emanuel. Modern probability theory and its applications. New York, Wiley, 1960; [London, Chapman & Hall]. xv, 464 p. 9". 86s. (Wiley Publications in Statistics.)

Plackett, R. L. Principles of regression analysis. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960. [ix], 173 p. 94". 35s.

Plummer, H. C. An introductory treatise on dynamical astronomy. New York, Dover Publications, 1960; [London, Constable]. xix, [3], 343 p. 8k". $2.35.

Richardson, Lewis F. Arms and insecurity: a mathematical study of the causes and origins of war. Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Boxwood Press, 1960; [London, Stevens]. xxv, 307 p. 83". 63s.

Statistics of deadly quarrels. Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Boxwood Press, 1960; [London, Stevens]. xlvi, 373, [5] p. front. (port.). 8k3. 63s.

Robinson, Joan. Exercises in economic analysis. London, Macmillan & Co., 1960. xx, 242 p. 7X". 6s.

Routh, Edward John. The elementary part of a treatise on the dynamics of a system of rigid bodies, being part 1 of a treatise on the whole subject, with numerous examples. New York, Dover Publications, 1960; [London, Constable]. xv, [3], 443 p. 8". $2.35.

Schumpeter, Elizabeth Boody. English overseas trade statistics, 1697-1808. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960. vii, 72 p. 93"x 133'. 45s.



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Sen, S. N. The city of Calcutta: a socio-economic survey, 1954-55 to 1957-58. Calcutta, Bookland Private Ltd., 1960. [8], 271 p. 9k". 30 rupees.

Sengupta, J. M. & Bhattacharya, Nikhilesh. Tables of random normal deviates. Calcutta, Statistical Publishing Society; London, Asia Publishing House, 1960. xix, 26 p. 1 I". 35s. (Indian Statistical Series, 5.)

Simey, T. S. & Simey, M. B. Charles Booth, social scientist. London, Oxford University Press, 1960. x, 282 p. front. (port.). 8k". 30s.

Smirnov, A. D. Tables of Airy functions and special confluent hypergeometric functions for asymptotic solutions of differential equations of the second order. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, 1960. vii, 260 p. 104"1. 1OOs. (Mathematical Tables Series, 7.)

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd. Statistical Department. The motor industry of Great Britain, 1960. London, S.M.M.T., 1960. 384 p. 9k". 55s.

Sraffa, Piero. Production of commodities by means of commodities: prelude to a critique of economic theory. Cambridge, University Press, 1960. xii, 99 p. 9 ". 12s. 6d.

Stacey, Margaret. Tradition and change: a study of Banbury. London, Oxford University Press, 1960. xiv, 231 p. 2 maps. 8k". 35s.

Strotz, Rt. H. & Malinvaud, E., editors. Econometrica essays in honour of Ragnar Frisch in the year of his sixty-fifth birthday, being a special edition of Econonmetrica, vol. 28, no. 2-April 1960. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Co., 1960. [6], 171-495 p. front. (port.). 931. 38s.

Swaroop, Sarya. Introduction to health statistics for the use of health officers, students, public health and social workers, etc. Edinburgh & London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1960. xix, 343 p. 40s.

Takacs, Lajos. Stochastic processes: problems and solutions. London, Methuen, 1960. xi, 137 p. 7k". 18s. (Methuen's Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics.)

United Kingdom. General Register Office. Area of residence of mental hospital patients: admissions to mental hospitals in England and Wales in 1957 according to area of residence, diagnosis, sex and age. London, H.M.S.O., 1960. iv, 177 p. 9k". 15s. 6d. (Stud. Med. Popul. Subj. 16.)

Classification of occupations, 1960. London, H.M.S.O., 1960. xxxiv, 136 p. 13". 27s. 6d.

United Kingdom. Home Office. Home Office studies in the causes of delinquency and the treatment of offenders: 3. Delinquent generations: a paper based on a communication to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section J) at their meeting in Glasgow, 1958; by Leslie T. Wilkins.... London, H.M.S.O., 1960. iv, 19 p. 9k'. Is. 6d.

United Kingdom. Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. National Insurance Bill, 1960: report by the Government Actuary on the financial provisions of the Bill. London, H.M.S.O., 1960. 7 p. 9k". 6d. (Cmnd. 1197.)

United Nations. Statistical Office. Demographic yearbook, 1959. 11th issue. New York, U.N.O.; London, H.M.S.O., 1960. ix, 719 p. 11i". 71s.

UNESCO. International bibliography of social and cultural anthropology.... Vol. IV prepared by the international committee for social sciences documentation in co-opera- tion with international congress of anthropological and ethnological sciences. Paris, Unesco, 1960. 341 p. 93". 33s. 3d. (International Social Science Bibliographies.)

Requirements and resources of scientific and technical personnel in ten Asian countries. Paris, Unesco, 1960. 29, [3] p. 10k1. 2s. 6d. (Unesco Statistical Reports and Studies.)

United States. National Bureau of Standards. Basic theorems in matrix theory. Washington, Supt. of Documents, 1960. iv, 27 p. 10k". 15c. (Appl. Math. Ser., 57.)

Fractional factorial experiment designs for factors at three levels. Washington, Supt. of Documents, 1960. v, 37 p. 10k". 30c. (Appl. Math. Ser., 54.)

Wadsworth, George P. & Bryan, Joseph G. Introduction to probability and random variables. New York & London, McGraw-Hill, 1960. vii, 292 p. 9". 68s. (McGraw- Hill Series in Probability and Statistics.)

Weissberg, Alfred & Beatty, Glenn H. Tables of tolerance-limit factors for normal distribu- tions. Columbus, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1959. [4], 14, [34] p. 10-".

Willner, D. Decisions, values and groups, [Vol.] 1: Reports from the first inter-disciplinary conference in the Behavioral Science Division held at the University of New Mexico;



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sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Oxford & London, Pergamon Press, 1960. xxix, 348, [2] p. diagrs. 9". 80s.

Wilson, Thomas. Inflation. Oxford, Blackwell, 1961. [9], 280 p. 8 ". 30s. Yates, Frank. Sampling methods for censuses and surveys. 3rd ed. London, Griffin, 1960.

xvi, 440 p. 8 2A. 54s. Yovits, Marshall C. & Cameron, Scott, editors. Self-organizing systems: proceedings of an

inter-disciplinary conference, 5-6 May, 1959; co-sponsored by Information Systems Branch of Office of Naval Research and Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology. London & New York, Pergamon Press, 1960. ix, 322 p. plates, diagrs. 8 ". 60s. (International Tracts in Computer Science and Technology and their Application, 2.)

