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The article reviews the book "Metode cantitative în studiul fenomenului religios (Quantitative Methods in the Study of Religious Phenomena)," by Claudiu Herteliu.

The reviewed book is a large overview of European changes during the 20th century. Chapters are devoted to different fields of social life, from politics to urbanization, and even the arts. The author found his sources mainly in foreign-language literature. Statistics and ample references are given for every subject discussed, according to the reviewer.

Reviews regression analysis procedures found in two recent articles by Guastello. The cusp-catastrophe model; Parameterization of the model; Demonstration of the regression model problems.

In the Lung Health Study (LHS), compliance with the use of inhaled medication was assessed at each follow-up visit both by self-report and by weighing the used medication canisters. One or both of these assessments were missing if the participant failed to attend the visit or to return all canisters. Approximately 30% of canister-weight data and 5% to 15% of self-report data were missing at different visits. We use Gibbs sampling with data augmentation and a multivariate Hastings update step to implement a Bayesian hierarchical model for LHS inhaler compliance. Incorporating individual-level random effects to account for correlations among repeated measures on the same participant, our model is a longitudinal extension of the Tobit models used in econometrics to deal with partially unobservable data. It enables (a) assessment of the relationships among visit attendance, canister return, self-reported compliance level, and canister weight compliance, and (b) determination of demographic, physiological, and behavioral predictors of compliance. In addition to addressing the estimation and prediction questions of substantive interest, we use sampling-based methods for covariate screening and model selection and investigate a range of informative priors on missing data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents statistical information on global AIDS according to the World Health Organization.

There is a peculiar situation in statistics. Statisticians consider statistics as one integral subject, and, at the same time, artificially divide statistics into two conflicting parts: descriptive and inferential. Therefore, statisticians constantly fail in applied statistical research, especially in economics. Therefore, statisticians often lie with statistics and are often deceived by statistics. This situation is considered as a crisis in statistics. The article proposes a theory of coordination between statistical methods and statistical information, and to restore the continuity between notions in the theory of probability and in statistics. The theory of probability is the most abstract mathematical science, with unlimited scope of application. However, the essential question of the theory of probability has not been solved. The application of statistics in economics can be considered as an art where imagination predominates. Statistics is a methodological science and is a dialectical juxtaposition of quality (object, data) and quantity (method). Coordination between data and method is based on the principal rule that a population must be homogeneous.

Presents labor statistics, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as of March 1977. Employment; Unemployment insurance; Prices; Industrial productivity; Labor-management relation.

The article focuses on the book "Statistical Methods Applied to Economics and Business," by Frederick Cecil Mills. The writer of a text book on statistics has a difficult task to perform. There are two principal objectives or modes of treatment, first, exposition of the mathematical concepts which are an essential part of methods for handling statistical material and secondly, description of methods of gathering and collecting such material for use as a basis for conclusions. In applying either of these to any particular subject matter, the characteristics of the data with which the statistician is dealing must be kept in mind, since they may vitally affect the methods to be applied and the conclusions to be drawn. This is, indeed, the justification for a special treatise on statistics of economics and business as distinguished from general unspecialized treatises. The varying emphasis upon these two aspects of statistics by different writers helps to explain the great diversity in their methods of treatment and the difficulty of pleasing all who might use any particular work.

Presents a study which described the function of the Wishart variance generator. Matrix of variances and co-variances; Density function of the variances; Use of auxiliary algorithms in the generation process.

Presents labor statistics in the United States compiled as of June 1965. Employment; Labor turnover; Earnings and hours; Consumer and wholesale prices; Work stoppages; Work injuries.

The article reviews the book "The Economics of Corruption," by Ajit Mishra.

The article reviews the book "Sandlot Stats: Learning Statistics With Baseball" by Stanley Rothman.

(A. E. Gelfand, P. J. Diggle, M. Fuentes, and P. Guttorp, Editors) Daniel Commenges (J. E. Gentle) Thomas Lumley (M. T. Tan, G.-L. Tian, and K. W. Ng) Alessandra Mattei (P. D. Hoff) Dalene Stangl (S. S. Qian) Andrew Finley (S. J. Sheather) Mervyn G. Marasinghe (L. L. Kupper, B. H. Neelon, and S. M. O'Brien) Scott S. Emerson (H. Wickham) Leland Wilkinson [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design of Observational Studies (P. R. Rosenbaum) Peter B. Gilbert Longitudinal Data Analysis (G. Fitzmaurice, M. Davidian, G. Verbeke, and G. Molenberghs, Editors) Joseph W. Hogan Multiple Testing Problems in Pharmaceutical Statistics (A. Dmitrienko, A. C. Tamhane, and F. Bretz, Editors) Jason Stover Life Distributions: Structure of Nonparametric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families (A. W. Marshall and I. Olkin) Yosef Rinott [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "What is a P-value anyway?: 34 stories to help you actually understand statistics," by Andrew Vickers.

A review is presented of the book "Methods & Applications of Statistics in the Life & Health Sciences," by N. Balakrishnan

The article reviews the book "Computational Statistics: An Introduction to R," by Günther Sawitzki.

The article reviews the book "First and Second Steps in Statistics," by Daniel B. Wright and Kamala London.

The article revies the book "Linking & Aligning Scores and Scales," edited by Neil J. Dorans, Mary Pommerich and Paul W. Holland.

The article reviews the book "Encyclopedia of statistics in quality and reliability," edited by Fabrizio Ruggeri, Ron S. Kenett, and Frederick W. Faltin.

The article reviews the books "National Accounts Statistics: Main Aggregates and Detailed Tables, 2005" and "National Accounts Statistics: Analysis of Main Aggregates, 2004-2005," by the Department of Economics and Social Affairs.

Reviews the book "Statistics: An Introduction Using R," by Michael J. Crawley.

The article presents information about the book "The Uralic Language Family: Facts, Myths and Statistics," by Angela Marcantonio. In this book, Marcantonio (M) attempts to demonstrate that the Uralic language family, one of the first to be established on the basis of comparative evidence, does not constitute a valid genetic unit. Various chapters examine such topics as the historical development of Uralic theory, reconstructions of the protolanguage, lexical items shared with non-Uralic languages, the antiquity of Proto-Uralic, and the distribution of toponyms, ethnonyms, and personal names in the modern languages. M's general point is that the comparative method is not adequate to the task of tracing the historical development of the Uralic languages. Nowhere does M invalidate the real core of Uralic theory: the proposition that the various Uralic languages share a greater number of systematic phonological correspondences in morphology and basic vocabulary with each other than any of them does with any non-Uralic language.

The article reviews the book "Vital Statistics of the United States: Births, Life Expectancy, Deaths, and Selected Health Data" edited by Shana Hertz-Hattis.

This article presents comments of the author regarding the paper "A Review and Evaluation of Software Science," by A. Fitzsimmons and T. Love, published in the March 1978 issue of the periodical "ACM Computing Surveys." The article raised two questions in author's mind: whether the effort measure is a good measure of complexity and whether the correlation coefficient is a reliable tool for validating the conjectures of software science. Article's abstract states that software science's effort measure (E) gives an objective measure of complexity. E is an extensive measure that is, one that depends on the bulk or size of the program. All previous measures of complexity have been intensive that is, they depend on the internal structure. Examples include the relative frequencies of branching statements and calls, or a normalized to unity spectrum of program's listing across indenture levels, or a cyclomatic measure of program's loop and nesting structure. Indeed, T.J. McCabe, a software engineer has expressed skepticism of extensive measures.

Reviews the software PC Datagraphics and Mapping developed by Kenneth E. Hinze from National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse.

Focuses on the definition of effects and calculation of sums of squares for various tests of hypotheses in unbalance analysis of variance. Presentation of the concept of estimability; Usability of the cell-means model; Introduction of a linear-models analysis strategy.

A review of the book "The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics," by Grady Klein and Alan Dabney, is presented.