The volume will be immensely valuable to all researchers and scholars intended in the study of Indian Planning process with a global perspective for the government intervention in the capitalist economies and that for planning in socialist economies. This volume was prepared with the same editorial standard as that of Sankhya, all published articles were referred. The resulting collections of thirty-six articles by eminent specialists display a wide range of application, and several new directions of theoretical and practical research. There are two penetrating reviews on the application of statistical and probabilistic ideas in cluster analysis and mathematical economics. Among other topics of interest are exchangeability, inference about random fields, progressive censoring and new methods of prediction growth.
Most articles strike a few balances between review and new results.
The specialists and the general readers of the subject can read the volume with pleasure and profit both by the specialists and general readers of the subject. In addition a short biography of Professor Mahalanobis is also included. Out of the nine essays, seven are on Statistics, one on general science education and the other on Scientific Manpower. The subject of statistics has two different aspects. On one side statistics consists of facts collected for administrative purposes or state-craft in its widest sense.