The following recently published books may be of interest to readers of this Newsletter.
Barnett, V. & Turkman, K.F. 1993 Statistics for the Environment. J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 427 pp.
Berry, W.D. 1993 Understanding Regression Assumptions. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 91 pp.
Botkin, D.B. 1993 Forest Dynamics - An Ecological Model. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 309 pp.
Chester, D. 1993 Volcanoes and Society. Edward Arnold, London. Paperback. 351 pp.
Crawley, M.J. 1993 GLIM for Ecologists. Blackwell, Oxford. Paperback. 379 pp. (with diskette).
Demaris, A. 1992 Logit Modelling. Practical Applications. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 87 pp.
Diaz, H.F. & Markgraf, V. (Eds.) 1993 El Niño. Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 476 pp.
Eliason, S.R. 1993 Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Logic and Practice. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 87 pp.
Fahrmeir, L. et al. (Eds.) 1992 Advances in GLIM and Statistical Modelling. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Paperback. 225 pp.
Frenzel, B (Ed.) 1993 Oscillations of the Alpine and Polar Tree Limits in the Holocene. European Science Foundation, Strasbourg. Paperback. 234 pp.
Fry, J.C. (Ed.) 1993 Biological Data Analysis. A Practical Approach. IRL Press, Oxford. Paperback. 418 pp.
Fox, J. 1991 Regression Diagnostics. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 92 pp.
Gates, D.M. 1993 Climate Changes and its Biological Consequences. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass. Paperback. 280 pp.
Gibbons, J.D. 1993 Nonparametric Statistics. An Introduction. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 87 pp.
Gurney, R.J., Foster, J.L. and Parkinson, C.L. (Eds.) 1993 Atlas of Satellite Observations related to Global Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 470 pp.
Hagenaars, J.A. 1993 Loglinear Models with Latent Variables. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 75 pp.
Hair, J.F. et al. 1992 Multivariate Data Analysis with Readings Third edition. Macmillan, New York. 544 pp.
Hamilton, L.C. 1992 Regression with Graphics - A Second Course in Applied Statistics. Brooks/Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, California. 363 pp.
Hardy, M.A. 1993 Regression with Dummy Variables. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 90 pp.
Jacoby, W.G. 1991 Data Theory and Dimensional Analysis. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 89 pp.
Kareiva, P.M. et al. (Eds.) 1993 Biotic Interactions and Global Change. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass. Paperback. 559 pp.
Kirby, K.N. 1993 Advanced Data Analysis with SYSTAT. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. 475 pp.
Lindsey, J.K. 1992 The Analysis of Stochastic Processes using GLIM. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Paperback. 294 pp.
Mooney, C.Z. & Duval, R.D. 1993 Bootstrapping. A Nonparametric Approach to Statistical Inference. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 73 pp.
Press, W.H. et al. 1992 Numerical Recipes - The Art of Scientific Computing. (Second edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 963 pp. (also available are Example Books and Diskettes of Subroutines in C, FORTRAN, Pascal, and BASIC).
Reyment, R.A. & Röreskog, K.G. 1993 Applied Factor Analysis in the Natural Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 371 pp.
Roberts, N. (Ed.) 1994 The Changing Global Environment. Blackwell, Oxford. Paperback. 531 pp.
Schumm, S.A. 1993 To Interpret the Earth. Ten Ways to be Wrong. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 133 pp.
Taylor, R.E. et al. (Eds.) 1992 Radiocarbon after four Decades. Springer-Verlag, New York. 596 pp.
Van de Geer, J.P. 1993 Multivariate Analysis of Categorical Data: Applications. Sage, Newbury Park. 124 pp.
Van de Geer, J.P. 1993 Multivariate Analysis of Categorical Data: Theory. Sage, Newbury Park. 99 pp.
Weisberg, H.F. 1992 Central Tendency and Variability. Sage, Newbury Park. Paperback. 89 pp.
PC Magazine 12 (9) (May 11 1993) had an interesting comparative review of some of the more popular statistical packages such as BMDP 386, Genstat, Minitab, SPSS, Statgraphics, and Systat that, in some way, are programmable. Readers of this review may be interested in Richard Goldstein's (the Statistical Computing Software Review Editor in American Statistician) notes about the PC Magazine review in American Statistician (1993) 47, 216.
There is an interesting Special Feature series of papers in Ecology (1993) 74 (6) 1615-167 on Statistical Methods: an Upgrade for Ecologists. Topics covered include distribution-free randomisation procedures, different non-standard regression procedures, ANOVA for unbalanced data, spatial heterogeneity, and spatial autocorrelation.