STATISTICS COMPUTER PROGRAM ADVANCES. RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS 245Issue - Nov. 2008, Vol. 62, No. 4
Book review - Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (4th ed.) Larson & Farber,
Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009 Reviewed by Jessica Chapman
Book review - Statistical Development of Quality in Medicine Per Winkel & Nien
Fan Zhang, Wiley, 2007
Reviewed by Gideon (K. D.) Zamba
Section Editor’s note - Only two publications of the American Statistical Association
have a section devoted to software reviews: this one, and the Journal of Statistical
Software (JSS), an online journal hosted on the servers of the UCLA Department of
Statistics and founded by Prof. Jan de Leeuw in 1996. That website is described as
handling some 15,000 accesses per day.
Issue - Aug. 2008, Vol. 62, No. 3
Book review - The R Book Michael J. Crawley, Wiley, 2007
Reviewed by Timothy J. Robinson
Section Editor’s note - Hilbe’s recall of his first IBM AT computer in 1984 and
comparison with changes to present day hardware, software, and statistical programs.Issue - May 2008, Vol. 62, No. 2
Article - Survival Analysis: A Primer David A. FreedmanIssue - Aug. 2007, Vol. 61, No. 3
Statistical software review - The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 3.0 Susan J.
Slaughter & Lora D. Delwiche, SAS Institute, 2005
Reviewed by Philip Dixon
Book review -A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R Brian S. Everitt & Torsten
Hothorn, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006
Reviewed by Ulric J. Lund
Book review - Statistical Reasoning in Medicine: The Intuitive P-Value Primer (2nd
ed.), Lemuel A. Moye, Springer, 2006
Reviewed by Peng Huang
Book review - Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics
Forrest W. Young, Pedro M. Valero-Mora, & Michael Friendly. Wiley, 2006
Reviewed by Christine M. Anderson-Cook
Issue - Feb. 2007, Vol. 61, No. 1
Statistical software review -A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows: Updated for Ver-
sions 10, 11,12,13 (3rded.) Andrew Colman & Briony Pulford, BlackwellPublishers,
Ltd. 2006
Reviewed by J. Wade Davis