Abstract: | Books reviewed: Robert, Hooke, How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians John D., Spurrier, The Practice of Statistics: Putting the Pieces Together Clive, Loader, Local Regression and Likelihood N., Balakrishnan; V.B., Melas and S., Ermakov, (eds) Advances in Stochastic Simulation Methods J.W., Kay and D.M., Titterington, (eds) Statistics and Neural Networks: Advances at the Interface B.S., Everitt, The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics |