Book Reviews

A series of book reviews including:…Studying Mathematics and its Applications, Peter Kahn, Palgrave Publishing Ltd., October 2001, ISBN 0-333-92279-4. Reviewed by Laurence Nicholas…/… Stat Labs: Mathematical statistics through applications by Deborah Nolan and Terry Speed, Springer 2000, 282 pp., www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/statlabs/. Reviewed by P.M.E. Altham:…/… Chance Encounters: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference by Christopher J Wild and George A F Seber, 2000, John Wiley & Sons Inc. Hard-bound, xviii + 612 pp ISBN 0-471-32936-3. Reviewed by Flavia Jolliffe:…