Psychometrika Book Reviews

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Published or Forthcoming Book Reviews: (sorted chronologically )

Accepted
- Howard Wainer, page xx
  MOSTELLER, F. (2010) The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller. S. E. Fienberg, D. C. Hoaglin, & J. M. Tanur (Eds.). NY: Springer. 344 pages. US$39.95. ISBN: 978-0387779553. Publisher's description
- Klaas Sijtsma, page xx
  LISSITZ, R. W. (Ed) (2009) The Concept of Validity: Revisions, New Directions and Applications Information. 270 pages. US$45.99. ISBN: 978-1607522270. Publisher's description
- Adam E. Wyse, page xx
  DE AYALA, R. J. (2008) The Theory and Practice of Item Response Theory NY: Guilford Press. 448 pages. US$60.00. ISBN: 978-1593858698 . Publisher's description
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Volume 75 (2010)
- David Kaplan, page 391
  CARLIN, B. P. & T. A. LOUIS. (2008) Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis, Third Edition Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. 552 pages. US$69.95. ISBN: 978-1584886976 . Publisher's description
Volume 74 (2009)
Volume 73 (2008)
- Waqas Ahmed Malik & Antony Unwin, pages 793-794:
  Pearson, R.K. (2005). Mining Imperfect Data: Deaaling with Contamination and Incomplete Records. Philadelphia, PA: SIAM. + 315 pp. US$70.95. ISBN: 0898715822.
- Daniel Bolt, pages 791-792:
  de Gruijter, D.N.M & van der Kemp, L.J.Th. (2008). Statistical Test Theory for the Behavioral Sciences. NY: Chapman & Hall/CRC. 264 page US $69.95. ISBN: 1584889586. Publisher's description
- Timothy Johnson, page 523:
  de Leeuw, Jan & Meijer, Erik (editors) (2008) Handbook of Multilevel Analysis Springer. xiii + 493 pages. US$199.00. ISBN: 978-0-387-73183-4 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-73186-5. Publisher's description
- Clintin Davis-Stober, page 341:
  Hunt, Earl (2006). The Mathematics of Behavior. NY: Cambridge University Press. US$34.99. ISBN: 0-521-61522-4. Publisher's description
- Waqas Ahmed Malik & Antony Unwin, page 165-166:
  Herzog, T.N., Scheuren, F.J., & Winkler, W.E. (2007). Data Quality and Record Linkage Techinques. Springer. xiii + 227 pages. US $44.95. ISBN-13: 978-00387-69502-0 and eISBN-13: 978-0-387-69505-1. Publisher's description
- Edgar C. Merkle, page 163-164:
  O'Hagan, A., Buck, C.E., Daneshkhah, A., Esier, J.R., Garthwaite, P.H., Jenkinson, D.J., Oakley, J.E., Rakow, T. (2006). Uncertain Judgements: Eliciting Expert's Probabilities. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 57.90 Euro. ISBN: 978-0-470-02999-2. Publisher's description
- William Messner, page 159-161:
  Young, Forrest W., Valero-Mora, Pedro M., & Friendly, Michael . (2006). Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamix Interactive Graphics. Hobken, NJ: Wiley. xx+363 pages. US$89.95. ISBN: 0471681601. Publisher's description
Volume 72 (2007)
- Michael Brusco, pages 655-656:
  Hubert, L, Arabie, P, & Meulman, J. (2006). The Structural Representation of Proximity Matrices with MATLAB. Philadelphia, PA: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). 214 + xvi pages. US$79.00. ISBN: 0-89871-607-1. Publisher's description
- Peter Congdon, pages 653:
  Frees, E.W. (2004). Longitudinal and Panel Data: Analysis and Applications in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
- Claudia Tamassia, pages 649-651:
  Hambleton, Merenda & Spielberger (2005). Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment. Erlbaum
- Jorg Blasius, pages 647-648
  Nishisato, Shizuhiko. (2007). Multidimensional Nonlinear Descriptive Analysis. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. xiii+312 pages. US$89.95. ISBN: 1584886129. Publisher's description
- Theodore A. Walls & Dustin B. Wielt, pages 643-646:
  Bollen, K.A. & Curran, P.J. (2006). Latent Growth Curve Models: A Structural Equation Perspective. Wiley. 285 pages + xii.
- Mo Wang, pages 455-456:
  Bennett, W., Lance, C.E., & Woehr, D.J. (editors) (2006). Performance Measrurement. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 376 pages. US $. ISBN 0-8058-3697-7. Publisher's description
- Kees van Montfort, pages 451-454:
  (DOI: 10.1007/s11336-005-1537-5)
  Walls, T.A., & Schafer, J.L. (editors) (2006). Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data. NY: Oxford. 288+XXii pages. ISBN 0-19-517344-9. Publisher's description
- Timothy R. Johnson, page 449-450:
  Hensher, D.A., Rose, J.M, & Greene, W.H. (2005). Applied Choice Analysis: A Primer. Cambridge University Press.
- Hua Hua Chang, pages 279-281:
  (DOI: 10.1007/s11336-005-1386-7)
  van der Linden, W.J. (2005). Linear Models for Optimal Test Design. Springer.
- Fion Murtagh, pages 275-277:
  (DOI 10.1007/s11336-006-1579-x)
  Greenacre, M, & Blasuis, J. (2006, July). Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods Atlanta, GA: CRC Press. US$99.95. ISBN 1-58488-628-5. Publisher's description
- Andreas Karlsson, pages 273-274:
  Alho, J.M. & Spencer, B.D. (2005). Statistical Demography and Forecasting. Springer. 410+xxvii pages, US$89.95. ISBN: 0-387-22538-2.
- Wolfgang Viechtbauer, pages 269-271:
  Rothstein, H.F., Sutton, A.J., & Borenstein, M. (2005). Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Prevention, Assessment and Adjustment. Wiley, xvii + 356 pages.
- Todd Bodner, pages 115-116:
  Longford, N.T. (2005). Missing Data and Small-Area Estimation. Springer.
- Leland Wilkinson, pages 111-113:
  Playfair, W. (2005). Introduced and annotated by Howard Wainer & Ian Spence. Playfair's Commerical and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary. NY: Cambridge University Press. 248 pages. US $39.99. ISBN: 978-0-5218-5554-9.
  
  Wainer, H. (2000). Visual Revelations: Graphical tales of fate and deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ross Perot. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 180 pages. US $75.00. ISBN: 0-8058-3878-3.
  
  Wainer, H. (2005). Graphic Discovery: A trout in the milk and other visual adventures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 192+xi pages. US $29.95. ISBN: 0-691-10301-1.
- Leslie Rutkowski, pages 109-110:
  Mirkin, B. (April 2005). Clustering for Data Mining: A Data Recovery Approach. London: Chapman & Hall/CRC. 266+xxiii pages. US $79.97. ISBN 1584885343.
- Clintin Davis-Stober, Stephen Broomell, & Florian Lorenz, pages 107-108:
  Martinez, W. & Martinez, A. (2005). Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
- Volume 71 (2006)
- Jay Verkluian, pages 781-783:
  (DOI 10.1007/s11336-006-1333-2)
  Takayuki Saito & Hiroshi Yadohisa. (2004). Data Analysis of Asymmetric Structures. New York: Marcel Dekker.
- Ilia Tsetlin, pages 779-780
  (DOI: 10.1007/s11336-005-1413-8)
  Taylor, A.D. (2005). Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation. Cambridge University Press.
- Bethany Wotal, pages 605-606:
  de Nooy, W., Mrvar, A., & Batagelj, V. (2005). Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Cambridge University Press.
- Howard Wainer, pages 603:
  (DOI: 10.1007/s11336-005-1375-x)
  Wilkinson, L. (2005). The Grammar of Graphics, 2nd edition. Springer.
- James Wardrop, pages 601:
  Brennan, R.L. (2001). Generalizability Theory. Springer.
- Jay Verkuian, pages 415-418:
  (DOI: 10.1007/s11336-006-1333-2)
  De Boeck, P. & Wilson, M.R. (2005). Explanatory Item Response Models: A Generalized Linear and Nonlinear Approach. Springer.
  
  Skrondal, A. & Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2004). Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal, and Structural Equation Models. Chapman Hall/CRC
- Hans-Frieder Köhn, pages 411--413:
  Brusco, M.J., & Stahl, S. (2005). Branch-and-Bound Applications in Combinatorial Data Analysis. Springer.
- Michael Kolen, page 211-214:
  von Davier, A.A., Holland, P.W., & Thayer, D.T. (2004). The Kernel Method of Test Equating. Springer.
- Alina von Davier, pages 207-209:
  Kolen, M.J, & Brennan, R.L. (2004). Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking: Methods and Practices, Second Edition. Springer.

Volume 70 (2005)
- Jos ten Berge, pages 799-801:
  Gower, J.C. & Dijketerhuis, G.B. (2004). Procrustes Problems. Oxford University Press.

Volume 69 (2004)
- Jim Ramsay, page:
  T. Hastie, R Tibshirani, & J. Friedman. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
- Albert Maydeu-Olivares, page 607:
  Tom Wansbeek & Erik Meijer. Measurement Error and Latent Variables in Econometrics
- Jim Ramsay, page 499:
  L. Hubert, P. Arabie, J. Meulman. Combinatorial Data Analysis: Optimization by Dynamic Programming.
- Pui-Wa Lei, page 319:
  David Kaplan. Structural Equation Modeling: Foundations and Extensions

Volumn 68 (2003)
- Anne Boomsma, page 323:
  Klass Sijtsma & Ivo W. Molenaar. Introduction to Nonparametric Item Response Modeling
- Daniel Bolt, page 155:
  A. Boomsma, M.A.J. Van Duijn, & T.A.B. Snijders. (EDS.). Essays on Item Response Theory
- Shelley A. Blozis, page 151:
  T.A.B. Snijders & R.J. Boskers. Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling

Volumn 67 (2002)
- Roderick P. McDonald, page 321:
  Judea Pearl. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference
- Michel van de Velden, page 317:
  R.D.H. Heijmans, D.S.G. Pollock, and A. Satorra (EDS.). Innovations in Multivariate Statistical Analysis, A Festschrift for Heinz Neudecker.
- Howard Wainer, page 173:
  Edward R. Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Volumn 66 (2001)
- Terry Ackerman, page 316:
  Wim J. van der Linden and Ronald K. Hambleton. Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory
- Jee-Seon Kim, page 311:
  Todd D. Little, Kai U. Schnabel, and J Urgen Baumert (EDS.). Modeling Longitudinal and Multilevel Data: Practical Issues, Applied Approaches, and Specific Examples
- Howard Wainer, page 307:
  Leland Wilkinson. The Grammar of Graphics
- Gideon Mellenbergh, page 153: Susan E. Embretson and Scott L Hershberger. The New Rules of Measurement: What Every Psychologist and Educator Should Know