Book Reviews

Abstract Statistical Modeling by Wavelets. Brani Vidakovic. New York: Wiley, 1999. ISBN 0-471-29365-2. xiii + 382 pp. $79.95 (H). Reviewed by R. T. OGDEN Wavelets Made Easy. Yves Nievergelt. Boston: Birkhauser, 1999. ISBN 0-8176-4061-4. xi + 297 pp. $39.95 (H). Reviewed by R. T. Ogden A Primer on Wavelets and Their Scientific Applications. James S. Walker, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1999. ISBN 0-8493-8276-9. x + 155 pp. $39.95 (P). Reviewed by Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Spline Functions and the Theory of Wavelets. Serge Dubuc and Gilles Deslauriers (Eds.). Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1999. ISBN 0-8218-0875-3. x + 397 pp. $110 (P). Reviewed by Martin T. Wells Regression and Time Series Model Selection. Allan D. R. McQuarrie and Chih-Ling Tsai. Singapore: World Scientific, 1998. ISBN 981-02-3242-X. xxi + 455 pp. $55. Reviewed by Elvezio Ronchetti The Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics. Y. R. Guttmann. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-62128-3. xi + 267 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by Persi Diaconis The Grammar of Graphics. Leland Wilkinson. New York: Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-987746. xvii + 408 pp. $69.95 (H). Reviewed by Edward J. Wegman Interpolation of Spatial Data: Some Theory for Kriging. Michael L. Stein. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98629-4. xvii + 247 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Stephen L. Rathbun Ordinal Data Modeling. Valen E. Johnson and James H. Albert. New York: Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98718-5. x + 258 pp. $64.95. Reviewed by Mary Kathryn Cowles Test Theory: A Unified Treatment. Roderick, P. McDonald. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. ISBN 0-8058-3075-8. xi + 485 pp. $69.95. Reviewed by Rebecca Zwick Analysis of Incomplete Multivariate Data (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability, No. 72). J. L. Schafer. London: Chapman and Hall, 1997. ISBN 0-412-04061-1. xiv + 430 pp. $64.95. Reviewed by Gary Gadbury Generalized Method of Moments Estimation. László Mátyás (Ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-5216-6013-0. ix + 316 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by Guido M. Kuersteiner Theory of Rank Tests (2nd Ed.). Jaroslav Hajek, Zbynek Sidak, and Pranab K. Sen. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999. ISBN 0-12-642350-4. xiv + 435 pp. $69.95. Reviewed by Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka Semimartingales and Their Statistical Inference. B. L. S. Prakasa Rao. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1999. ISBN 1-58488-008-2. xiv + 582 pp. $79.95. Reviewed by Michael Sørensen Decoupling, From Dependence to Independence, Randomly Stopped Processes U -Statistics and Processes, Martingales and Beyond. Victor H. De La Peña and Evarist Giné. New York: Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98616-2. xv + 392 pp. $79.95. Reviewed by R. Helmers Mathematical Analysis for Modeling. Judah Rosenblatt and Stoughton Bell. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8493-8337-4. xviii + 860 pp. $69.95 (H). A Course in Mathematical Modeling. Douglas Mooney and Randall Swift. Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 1999. ISBN 0-88385-712-X. xx + 431 pp. $41.95 (P). Reviewed by Richard L. Dykstra Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Control of Stochastic Systems. V. G. Kuklarni. New York: Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98725-8. xiv + 374 pp. $69.95. Reviewed by R. Dobrow Basic Stochastic Processes. Zdzislaw Brzeźniak and Tomasz Zastawniak. London: Springer, 1999. ISBN 3-540-76175-6. x + 225 pp. $29.95 (P). Reviewed by Robert B. Lund Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices With Structure. T. Kailath and A. H. Sayed (Eds.). Philadelphia, PA: SIAM, 1999. ISBN 0-89871-431-1. xvi + 342 pp. $59.50 (P). Reviewed by Robert L. Strawderman