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Tables of the F- and Related Distributions with Algorithms, by K. V. Mardia and P. J. Zemroch, Academic Press, 1978, x + 256 pages, $27.25.

The primary function of this book is to present a rather detailed table of the F-distribution which is displayed for Y, = .1(.1)1(.2)2(.5)4(1)16, 18, 20, 30, 40, 60, 120, 03 and v2 = .1(.1)3(.2)7(.5)11(1)40, 60, 120, co degrees of freedom for o = .oc@l, .ooo5, .ool, .005, .Ol, .02, .025, .03(.01).1, .2, .25, .3, .4 and .5. As this requires a triple entry table, it is indexed by Y,, each value requiring four pages to cover all the combinations of v2 and (Y. This consumes 160 pages of the book. Most of the remainder of the book is taken up with computational methods, including the program listings for the algorithms involved (Algol 60) and a section on some non-standard applications. These include good- ness-of-fit tests, tests of homoscedasticity, some robust and non- parametric test procedures, an approximation of the noncentral F-distribution and a method of fitting the Pearson Type IV distri- bution. The section on interpolation is quite detailed, reminiscent of the Pearson tables of many years ago.

Some auxiliary tables are also presented. These include the ~ and t-distribution for the same (Y levels as above and the same de- grees of freedom as Y* in the F tables, the 2 table including lower- tail probabilities as well. Also included are a short table of the nor- mal distribution useful for a normalizing approximation for F, some coefficients for Lagrangian interpolation, and a table of the gamma function of 1 + X/2.

In addition to being a scholarly treatise on the F-distribution, the principal feature of this book would be the large number of significance levels and fractional degrees of freedom useful in some of the applications.

J. E. J.

Developments in Statistics, Volume 2, edited by P. R. Krishnaiah, Academic Press, 1979, viii + 322 pages, $33.50.

This is the second volume in a series of collections of papers which are too long for a journal and too short to become a book. Most of the papers in the volume are related to time series, and al- though some of them are at least partially theoretical, the majority are related to problems which should interest our readers. In par- ticular, the papers by Crandall and by Helland, et al. discuss real physical problems. Krishnaiah’s article on simultaneous test pro- cedures is a comprehensive paper including procedures for means, variances and covariances, and regression, to name a few. Approx- imately 150 entries are included in the references. Similar in scope although somewhat more theoretical is Wijsman’s paper on se- quential analysis.

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CRANDALL, S. H., Random Vibration of One- and Two-Di- mensional Structures.

HANNAN, E. J., The Statistical Theory of Linear Systems. HELLAND, K. N., LII, K. S. and ROSENBLATT, M., Bispectra

and Energy Transfer in Grid-Generated Turbulence. KRISHNAIAH, P. R., Some Developments on Simultaneous Test

Procedures. ROZANOV, Y. A., Stochastic Markovian Fields. WIJSMAN, R. A., Stopping Time of Invariant Sequential Proba-

bility Ratio Tests.

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Energy and Health, edited by N. E. Breslow and A. S. Whittemore, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe- matics. 1979, xii + 340 pages, $16.50 (paperback).

This book contains eighteen papers given at a conference held in Alta, Utah in June 1978, sponsored by the SIAM Institute for Mathematics and Society. The conference focused on the effects on health of energy production. These papers may be of interest to our readers because the problems are industrial in nature and be- cause many of these papers use statistical models and analysis in their treatment of the problem.

Contents

Section 1. Carcinogenic and Mutagenic Effects of Fuel By- products. M. C. PIKE, J. S. JING, I. P. ROSARIO, B. E. HENDERSON,

and H. R. MENCK, Occupation: “Explanation” of an Appar- ent Air Pollution Related Localized Excess of Lung Cancer in Los Angeles County.

J. L. EPLER, Mutagenicity Testing of Energy-Related Com- pounds.

Section 2. Carcinogenic and Mutagenic Effects of Radiation. J. H. MARSHALL and P. G. GROER, A Possible Low-Lying

Linear Component in the Induction of Bone Cancer by Alpha Radiation.

P. G. SMITH, Some Problems in Assessing the Carcinogenic Risks to Man of Exposure to Ionizing Radiations.

V. E. ARCHER, Cancer and Anencephalus in Man Associated with Background Radiation.

Section 3. Statistical Models. K. RAI and J. VANRYZIN, Risk Assessment of Toxic Environ-

mental Substances Using a Generalized Multi-Hit Dose Re- sponse Model.

R. L. PRENTICE, Proportional Hazards Methods for Studying Health Effects in Relation to Energy Sources.

Section 4. Susceptible Population Subgroups. A. S. WHITTEMORE and J. B. KELLER, Asthma and Air Pol-

lution: A Quantitative Theory. W. J. BLOT, Clues to the Environmental Determinants of Cancer

from Its Geographic Patterns. M. J. LEVENSTEIN, Y. M. M. BISHOP, B. G. FERRIS, JR.,

and F. E. SPEIZER, Six-Cities Study: Standardization of Pul- monary Function Data.

C. H. PATRICK, Quantifying the Health Effects of Energy: The U. S. Aged as a Special Population at Risk.

Section 5. Occupational Exposures E. S. GILBERT, The Assessment of Risks from Occupational Ex-

posure to Ionizing Radiation. N. BRESLOW and J. PATTON, Case-Control Analysis of Cohort

Studies. F. E. LUNDIN, JR., V. E. ARCHER, and J. K. WAGONER, An

Exposure-Time-Response Model for Lung Cancer Mortality in Uranium Miners: Effects of Radiation Exposure, Age and Ciga- rette Smoking.

S. MAZUMDAR and C. K. REDMOND, Evaluating Dose-Re- sponse Relationships Using Epidemiological Data on Occupa- tional Subgroups.

Section 6. Policy Issues in Energy Planning. M. E. WRENN, A Comparison of Occupational Human Health

Costs of Energy Production: Coal and Nuclear Electric Genera- tion.

L. B. LAVE, Quantification and Evaluation of Risks from Elec- tricity Generation.

W. C. NELSON, Air Pollution Risk Assessment: Can We Quan- tify the Uncertainty?

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