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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566892
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Book Information:

Authors: J. Aitchison and I. R. Dunsmore
Title: Statistical prediction analysis
Additional book information: Cambridge Univ. Press, London, New York, Melbourne, 1975, xi + 273 pp., $24.50.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Seymour Geisser
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1976), 683-688
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1976-14106-7