Frederick Mosteller

Remarkable puzzlers, graded in difficulty, illustrate elementary and advanced aspects of probability. These problems were selected for originality, general interest, or because they demonstrate valuable techniques. Also includes detailed solutions.

Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions

Kenneth S. Warren

Because the outcome of medical interventions is sometimes unintentionally harmful, analytic methods, including meta-analyses, are being developed and refined to evaluate the effects of treatment on a population. This book discusses the efficacy of various kinds of clinical trials in assessing the goodness of such treatments. It also deals with the ancillary issues of publication bias and the dissemination of information through the press, as well as the economic and political consequences of decisions that are taken.

The Evaluation of Health Care Interventions

Doing More Good Than Harm

Papers of a conference by the same name held in New York City, March 22-25, 1993. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Howard S. Frazier

There have been few credible studies of the risks and benefits of widely used medical treatments. Howard Frazier and Frederick Mosteller, leading figures in the field of medical technology assessment, attempt to distill the methods and knowledge base of their highly specialized discipline, with particular reference to medical innovations.

Assessing Medical Innovations

Medicine Worth Paying for

John Wilder Tukey

Approaching data analysis; Indication and indicators; Displays and summaries for batches; Straightening curves and plots; The practice of re-expression; Need we re-express? Hunting out the real uncertainty; A method of direct assessment; Two-and more-way tables; Robust and resistant measures; Standardizing for comparison; Regression for fitting; Woes of regression coefficients; A class of mechanisms for fitting; Guided regression; Examining regression residuals.

A Second Course in Statistics

Data Analysis and Regression

John C. Bailar III

This work explains the purpose of statistical methods in medical studies and analyzes the statistical techniques used by clinical investigators, with special emphasis on studies published in "The New England Journal of Medicine". It clarifies fundamental concepts of statistical design and analysis, and facilitates the understanding of research results.

Medical Uses of Statistics

John W. Tukey

David C. Hoaglin

WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists ofselected books that have been made more accessible to consumers inan effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. Withthese new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend thelives of these works by making them available to future generationsof statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "Exploring Data Tables, Trends, and Shapes (EDTTS) waswritten as a companion volume to the same editors' book,Understanding Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis (UREDA). WhereasUREDA is a collection of exploratory and resistant methods ofestimation and display, EDTTS goes a step further, describingmultivariate and more complicated techniques . . . I feel that theauthors have made a very significant contribution in the area ofmultivariate nonparametric methods. This book [is] a valuablesource of reference to researchers in the area." —Technometrics "This edited volume . . . provides an important theoretical andphilosophical extension to the currently popular statistical areaof Exploratory Data Analysis, which seeks to reveal structure, orsimple descriptions, in data . . . It is . . . an importantreference volume which any statistical library should considerseriously." —The Statistician This newly available and affordably priced paperback version ofExploring Data Tables, Trends, and Shapes presents majoradvances in exploratory data analysis and robust regression methodsand explains the techniques, relating them to classical methods.The book addresses the role of exploratory and robust techniques inthe overall data-analytic enterprise, and it also presents newmethods such as fitting by organized comparisons using the squarecombining table and identifying extreme cells in a sizablecontingency table with probabilistic and exploratory approaches.The book features a chapter on using robust regression in lesstechnical language than available elsewhere. Conceptual support foreach technique is also provided.

Exploring Data Tables, Trends, and Shapes

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Papers Deriving from the Harvard University Faculty Seminar on the Coleman Report

On Equality of Educational Opportunity

The analysis of variance is presented as an exploratory component of data analysis, while retaining the customary least squares fitting methods. Balanced data layouts are used to reveal key ideas and techniques for exploration. The approach emphasizes both the individual observations and the separate parts that the analysis produces. Most chapters include exercises and the appendices give selected percentage points of the Gaussian, t, F chi-squared and studentized range distributions.

Frederick Mosteller

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