Books available for review for the Journal of Applied Statistics

The Journal of Applied Statistics publishes short book reviews. The titles listed below are currently available for reviewing. There is no fee for carrying out a review, but the reviewer may retain the book.

Before undertaking a review, please look through the guidelines for undertaking reviews, (which are also available in postscript format or as a pdf file).

If you would like to review one of the titles below, please contact me (preferably by email) with your name, address, and choice of book. My contact details are at the foot of this page. You might like to include a second choice in case your first preference has already been taken. Please be aware that I will only be dealing with book reviews administration once or twice a month, so please do not expect an immediate reply.

Please note that reviewers will usually be restricted to one or two books at anyone time, but are welcome to send in a longer list, in preferred order, in case any of the books have already been sent out for reviewing.

Recent arrivals

• Bell, W.R., Holan, S.H., & McElroy, T.S. (eds) (2012). Economic Time Series (hbk), Chapman & Hall / CRC, xvii+535 pages.
• Chambers, R.L., Steel, D.G., Wang, S., & Welsh, A.H. (2012). Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Sample Surveys (hbk), Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, xvi+374 pages.
• Chilès, J.-P. & Delfiner, P. (2012). Geostatistics: Modeling Spatial Uncertainty, second edition (hbk), Wiley, xv+699 pages.
• Christie, M., Cliffe, A., Dawid, P., & Senn, S. (eds) (2011). Simplicity, Complexity and Modelling (hbk), Wiley, xiv + 205 pages.
• Kennett, R.S. & Salini, S. (eds) (2012). Modern Analysis of customer Surveys: with applications using R (hbk), Wiley, xxiv + 500 pages.
• Peterson, A.C. (2012). Simulating Nature: A philospohical Study of Computer-Simulation Uncertainties and Their Role in Climate Science and Policy Advice, second edition (pbk), Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, xvi+208 pages.
• Thompson, S.K. (2012). Sampling, third edition (hbk), Wiley, xxi+436 pages.
• Tong, H., Kumar, T.K., & Huang, Y. (2011). Developing Econometrics (hbk), Wiley, xix + 467 pages.
• Viens, F.G., Mariani, M.C., & Florescu, I. (eds) (2012). Handbook of Modeling High-Frequency Data in Finance (hbk), Wiley, xiv + 441 pages.

Books available for review

• Bhattacharjee, M., Dhar, S.K., & Subramaniam, S. (eds) (2011). Recent Advances in Biostatistics; False Discovery Rates, Survival Analysis, and Related Topics (hbk), World Scientific, xviii + 292 pages.
• Bolancé, C., Guillén, M., Gustafsson, J., & Nielsen, J.P. (2012). Quantitative Operational Risk Models (hbk), Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, xxv+210 pages.
• Boutron, I., Ravaud, P. & Moher, D. (eds) (2012). Randomized Clinical Trials of Nonpharmacological Treatments (hbk), CRC Press / Chapman & Hall, xvi+387 pages.
• Chow, S.-C. & Chang, M. (2012). Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials, second edition (hbk), CRC Press / Chapman & Hall, xvi+358 pages.
• Emrouznejad, A. & Ho, W. (2012). Applied Operational Research with SAS (hbk), CRC Press / Chapman & Hall, xiv+270 pages.
• Hay-Jahans, C. (2012). An R Companion to Linear Statistical Models (hbk), Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, xvii+354 pages.
• Hinkelmann, K. (ed) (2012). Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 3: Special Designs and Applications. (hbk), Wiley, xxvii+555 pages.
• Humphreys, M.A. (2011). Wizadry: Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed (pbk), Oxford University Press, xvi+410 pages.
• Osswald, H. (2012). Malliavin Calculus for Levy Processes and Infinite-Dimensional Brownian Motion (hbk), Cambridge University Press, xix+407 pages.
• Ozaki, T. (2012). Time Series Modeling of Neuroscience Data (hbk), CRC Press / Chapman & Hall, xxv+548 pages.

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Stuart Barber, Book Review Editor, Journal of Applied Statistics,
Department of Statistics, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, U.K.
Tel: 0113 343 5146, Fax: 0113 343 5090, Email: stuart @ maths.leeds.ac.uk

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