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Title A DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC QUOTATIONS. Author A.L. Mackay. With a Foreword by P. Medawar. Publisher Bristol: Hilger, 1991, pp. xii + 297, ,9.50. This is a second enlarged edition of the original entitled Harvest of a Quiet Eye published in 1977. One of the new additions of interest to statisticians is:
"Recapture the universalist spirit of the early natural philosophers.
Learn science and not sciences.
Know in capsule form the dozen central concepts of each of the major sciences.
Learn the habits of mind of the chemist, psychologist and geologist.
Use in each science some of the intellectual equipment of the other sciences.
Be exceptional in breadth of appreciation.
Be able in biological and medical science to suggest physical explanations or mathematical models for known or conjectured facts.
Be familiar with forging and milling, the functions of a turret lathe, the kinds of heat treating used and their effects, what an industrial still looks like..."
[The education of a scientific generalist. Science(1949) 109, 553-8 by H.W. Bode, F. Mosteller, J.W. Tukey and C. Winsor.]
Title THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN W. TUKEY. Volume VII. Factorial and ANOVA (1949-1962). Author D.R. Cox (Ed.). Publisher Pacific Grove, California: Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole, 1992, pp. lxv + 266, US$54.95. This is the seventh volume in a series which will contain the published and previously unpublished papers of John W. Tukey. The original papers have been re-typeset and indexed. As in previous volumes, this volume includes a biography of F. Mosteller, a bibliography and a foreword by J.W. Tukey. Comments on individual papers in this volume are given by D.R. Cox.
Title COMMUNICATING SCIENCE. A Handbook. Author M. Shortland and J. Gregory. With a Foreword by W. Bodmer. Publisher Harlow, U.K.: Longman, 1991, pp. xii + 186, £9.99. This is a handbook for scientists, engineers and doctors who wish to communicate with the general public. In the foreword, Sir Walter Bodmer says "A non-scientific audience should be able to appreciate the elegance and excitement of science in just the same way that the artistry in a painting or the composition of a piece of music can be enjoyed. Science should be as much a part of our culture to enjoy as are the arts and humanities. Many surveys tell us that there is a public desire for more information about science and technology. Scientists must work with their colleagues in the media and elsewhere to improve and increase the information that is available, so that this need can be properly satisfied."
"Improving the public understanding of science needs the support of the wider community of scientists talking to and writing for a wide range of audiences. Locally your newspaper or radio station will often be glad to hear from you. You could give talks at schools to help them cope better with their science teaching in the context of the new national curriculum and, at the same time, help your own organisation with its recruitment. Local women's and other groups will welcome the chance to learn something of your particular area of science. Looking further afield, there are opportunities in the major newspapers and journals, national television and radio, public lectures and books rep-resenting science to a wide audience. This book is packed with useful ideas about making the most of all these opportunities.
Science and technology will be the basis for all future improvements in our health and prosperity. But to achieve these benefits to their maximum we must have a public that is ready to accept and exploit the fruits of science and that will depend to a large ex-tent on you the scientist helping to improve the public understanding of science."
Title SCIENTISTS IN THE THIRD WORLD. Author J. Gaillard. Publisher Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991, pp. xvi + 190, US$32.00. Scientific research and development play major roles in the industrialized nations. The author has looked into the question of what roles are played in developing countries. He has based his answers on a survey of 489 scientists in 67 countries.
Title MILLIKAN'S SCHOOL. A History of the California Institute of Technology. Author J.R. Goodstein. Publisher New York: Norton, 1991, pp. 317, £17.95. The California Institute of Technology celebrated its centennial in 1991. It was a successful century. This is the story of the men who, with vision, energy and scientific credentials, led the Institute, commonly referred to as Caltech.
Title FIVE BILLION VODKA BOTTLES TO THE MOON. Tales of a Soviet Scientist. Author I. Shklovsky. Translated and adapted by M.F. Zirin and H. Zirin. Publisher New York: Norton, 1991, pp. 268, ,14.95. Iosif Shklovsky (1916-1985) was a Soviet astronomer. He was blunt and irreverent and did not suffer fools gladly. This, his autobiography, tells of the pleasures, power and pain of Soviet science.
Title HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN. Reminiscences of His Life and Our Life Together. Author E.R. Einstein. Foreword by R.W. Clark. Publisher Iowa City: Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, 1991, pp. xiii + 112. Hans Albert Einstein was the elder son of Albert Einstein. Hans Albert became a leading developer of modern hydraulic engineering and a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This is Hans Albert's biography by his widow. It shows the interplay of science, history and family life.
Title PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY STATISTICS. Author D.C. Hoaglin and D.S. Moore (Eds.). Publisher Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1992, pp. xiii + 175, US$20.00. This volume consists of a collection of essays which according to the editors were "selected because we believe they should influence the teaching of statistics at the college level and elsewhere." The essays are: 1. What is statistics by D.S. Moore, 2. Data analysis by P.F. Velleman and D.C. Hoaglin, 3. Computers and modern statistics by R.A. Thisted and P.F. Velleman, 4. Samples and surveys by J.M. Tanur, 5. The statistical approach to the design of experiments by R.D. Snee and L.B. Hase, 6. What is probability? by G. Shafer, 7. The reasoning of statistical
inference by L.E. Moses, 8. Diagnostics by D.C. Hoaglin and 9. Resistant and robust procedures by T.P. Hettmansperger and S.J. Sheather.
Title STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR MANPOWER PLANNING, 2nd edition Author D.J. Bartholomew, A.F. Forbes, and S.I. McLean. Publisher Chichester, U.K.: Wiley, 1991, pp. x + 350, ,40.50. The main change in the second edition is material on continuous-time methods and a new chapter on the data needs of manpower planning.
Title GALILEO'S REVENGE. Junk Science in the Courtroom. Author P.W. Huber. Publisher New York: Basic Books, 1991, pp. viii + 274, US$23.00/C$31.00. The author is an engineer and a leading expert on liability law in the United States of America. He shows how lawyers have shifted the law from the rule of fact by the use of professional "expert" witnesses in order to press unsubstantiated claims on the basis of what a lawyer might call science.
Title DATA COLLECTION FORMS IN CLINICAL TRIALS. Author B. Spilker and J. Schoenfelder. Publisher New York: Raven Press, 1991, pp. xv + 672, US$118.50. This book has been written as an aid to re-searchers carrying out clinical trials. Until recent years, it was general practice to specifically design data-collection forms for every clinical trial; this required much time and effort by all those involved in the trial. In the 1980s, standard forms became the norm. This book contains a large number of actual forms which may be used either as they appear or with minor adjustments to suit specific trials. The forms have been designed to be of the highest quality, with the aim of increasing speed and efficiency when completing, processing and analyzing data. Guidelines on constructing the processing forms, as well as directions on customizing them, are given. A chapter is also given over to the use of remote data entry forms.
Title STATISTICS IN TOXICOLOGY. Author D. Krewski and C. Franklin(Eds.). Publisher New York: Gordon and Breach, 1991, pp. xiii + 677, US$90.00/,47.00. The application of a large number of statistical methods in toxicological research are considered. These methods include acute toxicity, subchronic toxicity, pharmacokinetics and genetic toxicology.
Title SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN CONTROVERSY. The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate. Author B. Martin. With a commentary by E. Groth III. Publisher Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1991, pp. vii + 266, US$16.95. This is a study of one of the most heated and long-lived health controversies as well as the study of the role of power in science. Evidence from several countries is given.
Title PLAGUE: A STORY OF SMALLPOX IN MONTREAL. Author M. Bliss. Publisher Toronto: Harper Collins, 1991, pp. xiii + 306, Can$26.95. In January 1885, the people of Montreal celebrated one of the great winter carnivals of the nineteenth century. A few weeks later, a railway porter arrived in Montreal suffering from smallpox. The mishandling of his case initiated a smallpox epidemic which killed more than 3000 Montrealers in less than three months. Every single death could have been pre-vented by vaccination.
The epidemic caused great disruption. Troops were called out to guard smallpox hospitals against anti-vaccination rioters. The city of Montreal was quarantined from the rest of North America.
This was the last epidemic of smallpox to devastate a city in the Western World. This book could perhaps be considered a parable about the epidemic diseases of our time.
Title VITAMIN C AND CANCER: MEDICINE OR POLITICS? Author E. Richards. Publisher Basingstoke, U.K.: MacMillan, 1991, pp. xii + 269, ,35.00. From the introduction: "As a case study, the vitamin C cancer controversy offers some valuable in-sights into the processes by which medical therapies are evaluated and put into practice. For this reason its history is relevant to all who wish to have a better understanding of, and, if possible, some input with the assessment and choice of available medical treatments."
Title EARTHQUAKE HAZARD ANALYSIS. Author L. Reiter. Publisher New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, pp. x + 254, US$75.00. This volume describes the basic structure, concepts, and application of deterministic and proba-bilistic seismic hazard analysis.
Title INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL RELIABILITY: A Designer's Approach. Author O. Vinogradov. Publisher New York: Hemisphere, 1991, pp. x + 142, ,35.00. From the preface: "...reliability is treated as part of the design process, bridging an interface between reliability and design so that communications between various people in a team are more efficient."
Title COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORKS FOR THE FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM. Author C. Van Loan. Publisher Philadephia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1992, pp. xiii + 273, US$27.00. It is generally accepted that "Life as we know it would be very different without the FFT". The author adds to this "Life as we know it would be considerably different if, from the 1965 Cooley-Tukey paper onwards, the FFT community had made systematic and heavy use of the matrix-vector notation". This book contains a very readable and up-to-date presentation of FFT techniques, their theory and application. Together with many explicit computational algorithms, the extensive annotated list of references add greatly to the scientific value of this reference text.
Title DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING. Concepts, Algorithms and Scientific Applications. Author B. Jähne. Publisher Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp. xiii + 383, DM.98.00. This book consists of selected topics in image processing with an emphasis on applications to the physical sciences, for example, the author's research on the physics of water surface waves. There are many high-quality colour plates as well as numerous figures and illustrations. Some topics, for example, image formation, discrete transforms, edge detection, motion, 3D images, are covered in depth, whereas others, for example, segmentation, classification, texture, are only summarized. The material on algorithms and spectral techniques is plentiful, and well supported by experiments; in contrast, the material on stochastic methods is rather sparse and elementary.
Title BREAKTHROUGHS IN STATISTICS. Author S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson (Eds.). Publisher New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. xli + 631, pp. xxi + 600, DM.178.00 each volume. Volume I. Foundations and Basic Theory.
Volume II. Methodology and Distribution.Professors Kotz and Johnson have once again come up with a useful idea. These volumes contain well-known papers. The thirty-nine papers include ones by Pearson (1900), "Student" (1908), Fisher (1926) and Neyman and Pearson (1933). Each paper is reproduced in full along with an introduction by various statisticians. The introductions tell of the impact of each paper on the literature and give further more recent references.
Title POISSON APPROXIMATION. Author A.D. Barbour, L. Holst and S. Janson. Publisher Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. x + 277, ,30.00. The Poisson distribution is often used as an approximation to a more complicated distribution, the Poisson approximation to the binomial being merely one very special case. This monograph gives a thorough ac-count of methods for obtaining bounds on the error ari-sing in such approximations. The main emphasis is on applying a general method, the Stein-Chen approach, to a wide variety of interesting problems, including results concerning the compound Poisson distribution and Poisson process approximation.
Title PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TEACHING STATISTICS Author D. Vere-Jones. Publisher Voorburg, The Netherlands: ISI Publications in Statistical Education, 1991, pp. ix + 556, US$38.00. Volume 1. School and General Issues.
Volume 2. Teaching Statistics Beyond the School Level.These two volumes are the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Teaching Statistics which was held in Dunedin, New Zealand from August 19-24, 1990; there were 560 participants, five plenary sessions, 85 invited papers, 68 contributed papers and 66 abstracts. Forty-seven countries were represented. The first of these International Conferences was in 1982 in Sheffield, U.K. which attracted 420 participants and the second was in Victoria, Canada in 1986 and had 500 participants.
Title THE OXFORD DICTIONARY FOR SCIENTIFIC WRITERS AND EDITORS. Author A. Isaacs, J. Daintith and E. Martin (Eds.). Publisher B. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, pp. 389, ,14.95. From the preface: "The purpose of this dictionary is to provide scientists, science writers, and editors of scientific texts with a guide to the style for presenting scientific information most widely used within the scientific community. As far as possible this complies with the house style of the Oxford University Press; it also follows the recommendations of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry.
The dictionary is not intended to be a dictionary of science; many of the entries have only a brief definition, no definition at all, or sometimes an identifying subject label. Full definitions for most of the terms found in this dictionary will be found in the Concise Science Dictionary (OUP, 2nd edn, 1991) or the Concise Medical Dictionary (OUP, 3rd edn. 1990).
The fields covered are primarily physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, and astronomy, with some coverage of medicine, mathematics, and computer science."
[The editor of Short Book Reviews found some statistical terms, including "statistics 1. (takes a sing. form of verb) The science itself. 2. (takes a pl. form of verb) The numerical data involved or the quantities derived from the data. Adjectival form: statistical".]
Title DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC LITERACY. Author R.P. Brennan. Publisher New York: Wiley, 1992, pp. xiv + 334, US$22.95/,14.95. This dictionary of scientific literacy includes over 650 scientific and technical terms, concepts and principles with which every informed citizen should be familiar.
Title SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN HISTORY. An Approach to Industrial Development. Author I. Inkster. New Brunswick, Publisher New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1991, pp. xvi + 391, US$50.00. This book gives an analysis of the dynamic connections among science, technology, and economic development from the eighteenth century to the present. Science and technology are recognized as the crucial components of economic development in poor nations, the motors of growth in developing economies, and among the central issues of contemporary advanced societies. The relationships between science and technology and between science and technology and economic modernization are little understood and constantly changing.
The author includes extended treatments of Japan, China and India, as well as the process of industrialization in the West. Important historical themes, such as the industrial revolution, the transfer of technology and the role of institutions in knowledge and technique diffusion, are approached through the use of detailed historical case studies.
Title NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM IN SCIENCE, 1880-1939. Four Studies of the Nobel Population Author E. Crawford. Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xii + 157, £27.95/US$44.95. This study shows how the rise of scientific organizations around the turn of the century centred on national scientific enterprises. It is argued that scientific activities of the late nineteenth century were an integral part of the emergence of the nation-state in Europe. Internationalism in science, both
theoretical and practical, began to hold sway over scientists only when economic relations, transportation and communication began to cross national borders.
Title WHEN SCIENCE MEETS THE PUBLIC. Author D.C. B.V. Lewenstein (Ed.). Foreword by S. Grinell. Publisher Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992, pp. xvi + 164, US$14.00. Proceedings of a Workshop Organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology, February 17,1991,Washington
From the foreword: "Science information reaches the public through media and institutions that are isolated from one another, that often have commercial motives, that reach different audience segments, and that use different communications strategies. The people who work in these institutions become experts in their own fields, but often have little con-tact with other media. There are few opportunities to share significant research results or critical experiences across the science communication media; there are few opportunities to explore effects and alternatives from the point of view of society as a whole. Our work-shop was organized specifically to fill this gap."
Title THE PILL, PYGMY CHIMPS, AND DEGAS' HORSE. The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi. Author C. Djerassi. Publisher Scranton, Pennsylvania.: Basic Books, 1992, pp. viii + 319, US$25.00. This is the autobiography of the chemist who fathered the birth control pill, founded biomedical companies, thought and became later a best-selling novelist.
Title GOOD SCIENCE AND RESPONSIBLE SCIENTISTS. Meeting the Challenge of Fraud and Misconduct in Science. Author A.H. Teich and M.S. Frankel. Publisher Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992, pp. iv + 35, US$3.00. From the Introduction: "What are the dimensions of fraud and misconduct in science? How important an issue is it to science, to the government, to the public? What mechanisms exist for dealing with it? What has been learned from the experience of the past sever-al years? What remains to be done? ... Drawing on the work of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, this paper attempts to answer the questions posed above and to provide some perspective on incidents of this nature and the policy debates that surround them."
Title CARDINAL CHOICES. Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI. Author G. Herken. Publisher New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. xiv + 317, ,22.50. This volume gives the history of the relations between the scientific community and the President of the United States of America in the nuclear age.
Title THE ADVISERS. Scientists in the Policy Process. Author B.L.R. Smith. Publisher Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992, pp. xi + 238, US$36.95 Cloth;US$16.95 Paper. America's governing system is unique in the extent to which scientists and other outside experts participate in the policy process. This study traces the rise of scientists in the policy process and shows how outside experts inter-relate with politicians and administrators to produce a policy process. It also shows how the very openness of American government creates the potential for unusual conflicts of inter-est. Smith focuses on the experiences of agency and presidential-level advisory systems over the past several decades.
Title REPRESENTATIONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Author P. Weingart, R. Sehringer and M. Winterhager (Eds.). Publisher Leiden, The Netherlands: DSWO Press, Leiden University, 1992, pp. xx + 326, Dfl.62.50. Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, 10-12 Juni 1990.
The articles in this volume address issues of the meaning of bibliographic indicators as well as technical and methodological problems of their construction.
Title THE SEEDS OF TIME. The Life of Sir Macfarlane Burnet. Author C. Sexton. With a foreword by HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Publisher Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. x + 301, £19.95. Sir Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) was one of this century's outstanding biologists. Burnet was an Australian; he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960. For twenty-one years he headed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. In his retirement, he was President of the Australian Academy of Science and wrote many books on the relationship between science and society. This book is Burnet's official biography. The author quotes Boswell on Samuel Johnson in his dedication to the memory of Burnet: "And he will be seen as he really was; for I profess to write, not his panegyric, which must be all praise, but his life; which, great and good though he was, must not be supposed to be entirely perfect."
Title THE SCIENCE MATRIX. The Journey, Travails, Triumphs. Author F. Seitz. Publisher New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. xiii + 146, DM.78.00. In the essays presented in this volume, Professor Seitz, President Emeritus of Rockefeller University, investigates the role of science and tech-nology in modern science, its origins in ancient Greece and Rome, and the expansion of the centre of scientific activity from Western Europe to North America and recently to Japan. He also discusses the role science and technology play in shaping each other.
Title THE MATHEMATICAL HERITAGE OF C.F. GAUSS. A Collection of Papers in Memory of C.F. Gauss. Author G.M. Rassias(Ed.). Publisher Singapore: World Scientific, 1991, pp. xv + 902. This volume is dedicated to Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777-1855, one of the greatest mathematicians. It contains papers on various problems and theories in the fields of mathematics and its applications in which Gauss made many fundamental discoveries.
Title CURIOSITY PERFECTLY SATISFIED. Faraday's travels in Europe 1813-1815. Author B. Bowers and L. Symons (Eds.). Publisher London: Peregrinus in association with The Science Museum, London, 1991, pp. xvi + 168, ,19.00. As a young man, Michael Faraday travelled through Europe with Sir Humphrey Davy. Faraday kept a diary; this diary is published in full with the letters he wrote while he was in Europe. Although Faraday described some of the scientific work of Davy, most of his description is about the customs of the countries and details of the scenery and the buildings.
Title THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN. Volume 7, 1858-1859.. Author F. Burkhardt and S. Smith (Eds.). Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. xxxv + 671, £35.00/US$59.95. Supplement to the Correspondence1821-1857
This is the seventh volume of the complete edition of Charles Darwin's letters. The letters in this volume were written in the years 1858-1859. The volume also contains a Supplement (1821-1957) of all the letters that have been located or redated since the publication of Volumes 1-6. Many of these letters appear in print for the first time.
These volumes give for the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters, edited ac-cording to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The letters in this volume cover two of the most momentous years in Darwin's life. Begun in 1856 and the fruit of twenty years of study and reflection, Darwin's manuscript on the species question was a little more than half finished, and at least two years from publication, when in June 1858 Darwin unexpectedly received a letter and a manuscript from Alfred Russel Wallace indicating that he too had independently formulated a theory of natural selection. 'So all my originality, whatever it may amount to, will be smashed', Darwin wrote to his friend and mentor Charles Lyell. 'Though my Book, if it will ever have any value, will not be deteriorated; as all the labour consists in the application of the theory.' All of the extant correspondence surrounding Darwin's receipt of Wallace's letter and the eventual publication of the 'abstract' of Darwin's theory a year later are gathered together in this volume.
The letters detail the various stages in the preparation of what was to become one of the world's most famous works: Darwin's On The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, published by John Murray in November 1859. They reveal the first impressions of Darwin's book given by his most trusted confidants, including, along with Lyell, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Asa Grey. Finally, they relate Darwin's own anxious response to the early reception of his theory by friends, family members, and prominent naturalists in both their personal letters to him and in various publications. In short, this volume provides the capstone to Darwin's remarkable efforts for more than two decades to solve one of nature's greatest riddles: the origin of species.
Title A PHYSICIST ON MADISON AVENUE. Author T. Rothman. Publisher Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. xiv + 147, US$19.95. These essays bring the world of the non-scientist and scientist closer together with amusing and enlightening results.
Title SCIENCE A LA MODE. Physical Fashions and Fictions. Author T. Rothman. Publisher Princeton University Press, 1989, pp. xii + 207, US$12.95. The essays presented in this book show in detail how scientists may in certain situations abandon objectivity and run after the latest fashion.
Title IN PURSUIT OF THE PHD. Author W.G. Bowen and N.L. Rudenstine in collaboration with J.A. Sosa, G. Lord, M.L. Witte and S.E. Turner Publisher Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. xx + 442, US$35.00. This study seeks to answer questions of the kind: What percentage of graduate students entering Ph.D. programs in the arts and sciences at leading universities actually complete their studies? Do completion rates differ by fields?
The set of data consists of the experiences in graduate school of more than 35,000 students who entered programs in English, history, political science, economics, mathematics and physics at ten leading universities between 1962 and 1986.
Title A PATHOLOGY OF COMPUTER VIRUSES. Author C. Ferbrache. Publisher D. London: Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. xiii + 299. This volume gives a detailed history of computer viruses.
Title GET FUNDED! A Practical Guide for Scholars Seeking Research Support from Business. Author D. Schumacher. Publisher Newbury Park, California: Sage, 1992, pp. xvi + 288, £12.95. This volume discusses how the university-industry linkage can be accomplished. It shows how universities can persuade private businesses to sponsor research projects and programs.
Title MANAGING FOR WORLD-CLASS QUALITY. A Primer for Executives and Managers. Author E. S. Shecter. Publisher New York: Dekker, 1992, pp. ix + 275 US$49.75. This is a primer for executives and managers, addressing a wide selection of topics ranging from control charts and statistical process control, to communication and auditing. Treatments of statistical topics are intended to be accessible to non-statisticians. A significant part of the book is devoted to philosophical issues in quality management, using examples from the author's experience to crystallize ideas.
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