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MathSciNet review: 1567059
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Book Information:

Authors: Yvonne M. M. Bishop, Stephen E. Fienberg and Paul W. Holland
Title: Discrete multivariate analysis: Theory and practice
Additional book information: with the collaboration of Richard J. Light and Frederick Mosteller, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1975. Second printing with corrections, 1976, x + 557 pp., $30.00.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Marc Nerlove
    Reviewer: S. James Press
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 470-480
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14496-6