L i s t i n g of a p u b l i c a t i o n i n t h i s s e c t i o n i s f o r r e c o r d and r e f e r e n c e o n l y and does n o t c o n s t i t u t e a n endorsement of p o i n t of v i e w o r a d v o c a c y of u s e .
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS, edited by Ulf Grenander, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1959, 434 pp.
This book is a colllection of studies broadly covering statistics and probability. The articles range from the very practical such as Tukey's engineering approach to time series, to the very theoretical such as Masani's and Wiener's analysis of nonlinear prediction. The articles tend to be exposi.tory and heuristic, giving the nonspecialist a very readable survey of other fields.
Time Series is given good coverage, with generous bibliographies, and emphasis on the spectrum. Bartlett gives a general picture. Tukey gives practical suggestions for measuring the spectrum. Rosenblatt treats both the regression coefficients and the spectrum of the residual process. Grenander outlines some nonlinear problems. Wiener and Masani develop nonlinear predictions in terms of moments, and Masani writes a further article on the Wold decomposition and monotone matrix valued functions.
For the social scientists there are three articles: "Some Scaling Models and Estimation Procedures in the Latent Class Model," by T. W. Anderson; "A Survey of Results in the