The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events by COOK, R. J. and LAWLESS, J. F.

The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events (R. J. Cook and J. F. Lawless) Chiung‐Yu Huang and Xianghua Luo Introduction to Empirical Processes and Semiparametric Inference (M. R. Kosorok) Changyong Feng Uncertain Judgements: Eliciting Experts' Probabilities (A. O'Hagan, C. E. Buck, A. Daneshkhah, J. R. Eiser, P. H. Garthwaite, D. J. Jenkinson, J. E. Oakley, and T. Rakow) James M. Dickey Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data (T. A. Walls and J. L. Schafer, editors) Daniel Farewell Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health (R. A. Fjeld, N. A. Eisenberg, and K. L. Compton) Scott M. Bartell Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory (G. Harman and S. Kulkarni) Oliver Schulte Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals (M. J. Keeling and P. Rohani) Carol Y. Lin Cluster and Classification Techniques for the Biosciences (A. H. Fielding) Morven Leese Modern Applied U‐Statistics (J. Kowalski and X. M. Tu) Jesse Frey Handbook of Statistical Genetics, 3rd edition (D. J. Balding, M. Bishop, and C. Cannings, editors) Karin Bammann, Ronja Foraita, Frauke Günther Quality of Life: The Assessment, Analysis, and Interpretation of Patient‐Reported Outcomes, 2nd edition (P. M. Fayers and D. Machin) Jeff A. Sloan, Amylou Dueck, Rui Qin, Wenting Wu, Pamela J. Atherton, Paul Novotny, Heshan Liu, Kelli N. Burger, Angelina D. Tan, Daniel Szydlo, Victor M. Johnson, Sara J. Felten, Xinghua Zhao, and Brent Diekmann Advanced Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations (S. T. Buckland, D. R. Anderson, K. P. Burnham, J. L. Laake, C. L. Borchers, and L. Thomas) Carl James Schwarz Brief Reports by the Editor The Construction of Optimal Stated Choice Experiments: Theory and Methods (D. J. Street and L. Burgess) Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 1: Introduction to Experimental Design, 2nd edition (K. Hinkelmann and O. Kempthorne) Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, 2nd edition (W. M. Bolstad) Asymptotic Theory of Statistics and Probability (A. Dasgupta) Bootstrap Methods: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers, 2nd edition (M. R. Chernick)     

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. by BIVAND, R. S., PEBESMA, E. J., and GOMEZ-RUBIO, V.

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (R. S. Bivand, E. J. Pebesma, and V. Gomez‐Rubio) Jay M. Ver Hoef Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology (A. B. Lawson) J. Law Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach (J. S. Lombardo and D. L. Buckeridge, editors) Iris Pigeot Survival Analysis for Epidemiologic and Medical Research (S. Selvin) M. G. Valsecchi Survival and Event History Analysis: A Process Point of View (O. O. Aalen, O. Borgan, and H. K. Gjessing) Patricia Grambsch Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction (J. A. Lee and M. Verleysen) Haonan Wang Model Selection and Model Averaging (G. Claeskens and N. L. Hjort) Thomas M. Loughin Meta‐Analysis of Binary Data Using Profile Likelihood (D. Böhning, R. Kuhnert, and S. Rattanasiri) Eloise Kaizar Wavelet Methods in Statistics with R (G. P. Nason) Jeffrey S. Morris Adaptive Design Theory and Implementation Using SAS and R (M. Chang) Feifang Hu Ecological Models and Data in R (B. M. Bolker) Rachel M. Fewster Applied Multiway Data Analysis (P. M. Kroonenberg) Renato Coppi Brief Reports by the Editor Sampling of Populations: Methods and Applications, 4th edition (P. S. Levy and S. Lemeshow) Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time‐to‐Event Data, 2nd edition (D. W. Hosmer, S. Lemeshow, and S. May) SAS for Data Analysis: Intermediate Statistical Methods (M. G. Marasinghe and W. J. Kennedy) Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling (B. C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan, J. M. Sarabia, and R. Mínguez, editors) An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models, 3rd edition (A. J. Dobson and A. G. Barnett) Design and Analysis of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies, 3rd edition (S.‐C. Chow and J.‐P. Liu)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this Article:
Economics, Medicine and Health Care by Gavin H. Mooney
Making Choices: Ethics Issues for Health Care Professionals –Challenges of health care rationing and resource allocation, patients'rights, and providers'responsibilities Edited by Emily Friedman
High Technology Medicine: Benefits & Burdens by Bryan Jennett
The Foundations of Justice: Why The Retarded And The Rest Of Us Have Claims to Equality by Robert M. Veatch
Ethics in Nursing, 2nd Edition, by M. Benjamin & J. Curtis
Philosophical Medical Ethics by Raanan Gillon
Life Before Birth: Consensus in Medical Ethics by Kenneth Boyd     

Multivariable Model-building: A Pragmatic Approach to Regression Analysis Based on Fractional Polynomials for Modelling Continuous Variables by ROYSTON, P. and SAUERBREI, W.

Multivariable Model‐building: A Pragmatic Approach to Regression Analysis Based on Fractional Polynomials for Modelling Continuous Variables (P. Royston and W. Sauerbrei) David W. Hosmer Modern Multivariate Statistical Techniques: Regression, Classification, and Manifold Learning (A. J. Izenman) Debashis Ghosh A Primer on Linear Models (J. F. Monahan) Muni S. Srivastava Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R (A. F. Zuur, E. N. Ieno, N. J. Walker, A. A. Saveliev, and G. M. Smith) Carl James Schwarz Random Effect and Latent Variable Model Selection (D. B. Dunson, Editor) Kenneth Rice Missing Data in Clinical Studies (G. Molenberghs and M. G. Kenward) Suzanne R. Dubnicka Functional and Operatorial Statistics (S. Dabo‐Niang and F. Ferraty, Editors) Jason D. Nielsen Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns (J. Illian, A. Penttinen, H. Stoyan, and D. Stoyan) Jesper Møller Solved Problem in Geostatistics (O. Leuangthong, K. D. Khan, and C. V. Deutsch) Ole F. Christensen Statistical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology with R : A Case Study in Air Pollution and Health (R. D. Peng and F. Dominici) David Buckeridge Correspondence Analysis in Practice, Second Edition (M. Greenacre) Willem Heiser Introduction to Statistical Mediation Analysis (D. P. MacKinnon) Tyler J. VanderWeele Brief Reports by the Editor The EM Algorithm and Extensions, 2nd edition (G. J. McLachlan and T. Krishnan) Probability Models for DNA Sequence Evolution, 2nd edition (R. Durrett) Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis, 3rd edition (B. P. Carlin and T. A. Louis) Nonlinear Regression with R (C. Ritz and J. C. Streibig) Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population: An Interdisciplinary Approach (K. G. Manton, I. Akushevich, and J. Kravchenko)     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article: Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates. Vol. VI. Echinoderms and Lophophorates, edited by A. C. Giese, J. S. Pearse and V. B. Pearse. Pacific Grove, California, U.S.A. The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History, by T. B. Larsen. The Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Suffolk, by I. J. Killeen. Ipswich, U.K. Flycatcher. Memoirs of an Amateur Entomologist by K. A. Spencer. Ecosystems of the World 24. Intertidal and Littoral Ecosystems, edited by A. C. Mathieson and P. H. Nienhuis. Revision of the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), by Helmut Zibrowius and Stephen D. Cairns. Paris: Mémoires du Musée Nationale d'Histoire Naturellee, 1992. Animals and Disease. An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine, by L. Wilkinson. The Inevitable Bond. Examining Scientist-Animal Interactions, edited by H. Davis and D. Balfour. Martin Lister's English Spiders (1678), edited by J. Parker and B. Harley (translated by M. Davies and B. Harley)). The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, edited by P. F. Sale. San Diego, USA: The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity, by M. J. Scoble. Bats. A Community Perspective, by J. S. Findley. The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Second Edition. Botanical monkeys, by E. J. H. Corner. The Biology of Millipedes, by S. P. Hopkin and H. J. Read. Mammals in the Palaearctic Desert: Status and Trends in the Sahara-Gobian Region, edited by J. A. McNeely and V. M. Neronov. Coelenterate Biology: Recent Research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora, edited by R. B. Williams, P. F. S. Cornelius, R. G. Hughes and E. A. Robson. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Animal Behaviour, 4th ed., by A. Manning and M. S. Dawkins. Weevils, Naturalists' Handbook 16, by M. G. Morris. Insects on Cabbage and Oilseed Rape. Naturalists' Handbooks 18, by W. D. J. Kirk.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Emmanuel Agius and Salvino Busuttil, (eds), Germ-Line Intervention and our Responsibilities to Future Generations Andrew Edgar, Sam Salek, Darren Shickle and David Cohen, The Ethical QALY: Ethical Issues in Healthcare Resource Allocations John McKie, Jeff Richardson, Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the ‘QALY’ Approach Gregory E. Pence, Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning? Maxwell J. Mehlman and Jeffrey R. Botkin, (eds), Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality Udo Schüklenk, Access to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness Philip J. Boyle, (ed), Getting Doctors to Listen: Ethics and Outcome Data in Context Ellie Lee, (ed), Abortion Law and Politics Today     

Handbook of Spatial Statistics edited by GELFAND,A. E., DIGGLE,P. J., FUENTES,M. and GUTTORP,P.

Handbook of Spatial Statistics (A. E. Gelfand, P. J. Diggle, M. Fuentes, and P. Guttorp, Editors) Daniel Commenges Computational Statistics (J. E. Gentle) Thomas Lumley Bayesian Missing Data Problems: EM, Data Augmentation and Noniterative Computation (M. T. Tan, G.‐L. Tian, and K. W. Ng) Alessandra Mattei A First Course in Bayesian Statistical Methods (P. D. Hoff) Dalene Stangl Environmental and Ecological Statistics with R (S. S. Qian) Andrew Finley A Modern Approach to Regression with R (S. J. Sheather) Mervyn G. Marasinghe Exercises and Solutions in Biostatistical Theory (L. L. Kupper, B. H. Neelon, and S. M. O’Brien) Scott S. Emerson ggplot2 : Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (H. Wickham) Leland Wilkinson     

Graphics for Statistics and Data Analysis with R by KEEN,K. J.

Graphics for Statistics and Data Analysis with R (K. J. Keen) Michael Friendly Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R (W. Zucchini and I. L. MacDonald) Peter Guttorp Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials (S. M. Berry, B. P. Carlin, J. J. Lee, J. J. and P. Muller) Say Beng Tan SAS and R Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics (K. Kleinman and N. Horton) Juan P. Steibel Numerical Analysis for Statisticians, 2nd edition (K. Lange) Maria Rizzo Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering (T. Tango) Lance A. Waller Brief Reports by the Editor Survival Analysis Using SAS: A Practical Guide (P. D. Allison) Design and Analysis of Quality of Life Studies in Clinical Trials (D. L. Fairclough) Nonparametric Statistical Inference (J. D. Gibbons and S. Chakraborti) Stochastic Processes: An Introduction (P. W Jones and P. Smith)
     

Book Review:J.D. Sobel and J.A. Vazquez. ContemporaryDiagnosis and Management of Fungal Infections,Handbooks in Health Care Co., Newtown,Pennsylvania,2003. 256 pp. $20.00.

Book Review

Book Review:J.D. Sobel and J.A. Vazquez. ContemporaryDiagnosis and Management of Fungal Infections,Handbooks in Health Care Co., Newtown, Pennsylvania,2003. 256 pp. $20.00.     

Genetics: Successes and Prospects

Biology and the Human Sciences: The Herbert Spencer Lectures, 1970: Edited by J. W. S. Pringle. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972. 140 pp. £1.00.

Law and Ethics of A.I.D. and Embryo Transfer: Ciba Foundation Symposium 17. Associated Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, 1973. 110 pp. $6.50.

The Prevention of Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality; Public Health Papers, No. 42. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1972. 97 pp. $2.00.

Is My Baby All Right? By Virginia Apgar, M.D., M.P.H. and Joan Beck. Trident Press, New York, 1973. 496 pp. $9.95.     

A Primer of Ecology with R by STEVENS,M. H. H.

A Primer of Ecology with R (M. H. H. Stevens) Péter Sólymos Handbook on Analyzing Human Genetic Data: Computational Approaches and Software (S. Lin and H. Zhao, Editors) Peter M. Visscher From Finite Sample to Asymptotic Methods in Statistics (P. K. Sen, J. M. Singer, and A. C. Pedroso de Lima) Miodrag Lovric Dynamic Linear Models with R (G. Petris, S. Petrone, and P. Campagnoli) Helio S. Migon Functional Data Analysis with R and Matlab (J. O. Ramsay, G. Hooker, and S. Graves) Hervé Cardot Continuous Bivariate Distributions, 2nd edition (N. Balakrishnan and C.‐D. Lai) Márcia D'Elia Branco Brief Reports by the Editor The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, 2nd edition. (T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman) Gene Expression Studies Using Affymetrix Microarrays (H. Göhlmann and W. Talloen)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
COLES, S. An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values.
DOWNES, B. J., BARMUTA, L. A., FAIRWEATHER, P.G., FAITH, D. P., KEOUGH, M. J., LAKE, P. S., MAPSTONE, B. D. and QUINN, G. P. Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters.
BRUNNER, E., DOMHOF, S. and LANGER, F. Nonparametric Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Factorial Experiments.
LANGE, K. Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Genetic Analysis, 3rd edition.
MILLIKEN, G. A. and JOHNSON, D. E. Analysis of Messy Data, Volume III: Analysis of Covariance.
SMITH, P. J. Analysis of Failure and Survival Data.
JONES, P. W. and SMITH, P. Stochastic Processes: An Introduction.
PERCUS, J. K. Mathematics of Genome Analysis.
ROSENBAUM, P. Observational Studies, 2nd edition.
THODE, H. C., Jr. Testing for Normality.
GLAZ, J., NAUS, J. and WALLENSTEIN, S. Scan Statistics.
TOWNEND, J. Practical Statistics for Environmental and Biological Scientists.
REDDY, M. V. Statistics for Mental Health Care Research.     

Localization of the inosine triphosphatase locus (Itp) on chromosome 2 of the mouse

An electrophoretic variant of the enzyme inosine triphosphatase was found by screening inbred strains of mice. Strains with the slower-migrating variant include BALB/cJ, DBA/1J, and PL/J. The Itp locus was mapped between the -2-microglobulin (B2m) and the agouti (a) loci on chromosome 2. The mapping of Itp on chromosome 2 identifies a chromosomal segment that has been conserved since the divergence of lineages leading to mouse and man.This work was supported by Grants GM18684 and CA33093 from the National Institutes of Health. The Jackson Laboratory is fully accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: J.M. Arthur . Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study. Diane J. Austin-Broos. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Mick Broderick (ed.) Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch. Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer. An Ethnographic Film Monograph. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso (eds). Senses of Place. T. Fujitani. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds). Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (eds). Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Helen Hardacre. Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Marilyn Ivy. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Margaret Jolly. Women of the Place: Kaslom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu. M.P. Levine, P.M. Nardi and J.H. Gagnon (eds). In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS. Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.) Gender Ritual: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Helen Morton. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood. Herbert Donald Graham Maschner. Darwinian Archaeologies Michael Southon. The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village. J. M. Mageo and A. Howard (eds). Spirits in Culture, History and Mind. Virginia Watson. Anyan's Story. A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.     

Pea-derived vaccines demonstrate high immunogenicity and protection in rabbits against rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus

Vaccines against rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) are commercially produced in experimentally infected rabbits. A genetically engineered and manufactured version of the major structural protein of RHDV (VP60) is considered to be an alternative approach for vaccine production. Plants have the potential to become an excellent recombinant production system, but the low expression level and insufficient immunogenic potency of plant‐derived VP60 still hamper its practical use. In this study, we analysed the expression of a novel multimeric VP60‐based antigen in four different plant species, including Nicotiana tabacum L., Solanum tuberosum L., Brassica napus L. and Pisum sativum L. Significant differences were detected in the expression patterns of the novel fusion antigen cholera toxin B subunit (CTB)::VP60 (ctbvp60_SEKDEL) at the mRNA and protein levels. Pentameric CTB::VP60 molecules were only detected in N. tabacum and P. sativum, and displayed equal levels of CTB, at approximately 0.01% of total soluble protein (TSP), and traces of detectable VP60. However, strong enhancement of the CTB protein content via self‐fertilization was only observed in P. sativum, where it reached up to 0.7% of TSP. In rabbits, a strong decrease in the protective vaccine dose required from 48–400 µg potato‐derived VP60 [ Castanon, S., Marin, M.S., Martin‐Alonso, J.M., Boga, J.A., Casais, R., Humara, J.M., Ordas, R.J. and Parra, F. (1999) Immunization with potato plants expressing VP60 protein protects against rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus. J. Virol. 73 , 4452–4455; Castanon, S., Martin‐Alonso, J.M., Marin, M.S., Boga, J.A., Alonso, P., Parra, F. and Ordas, R.J. (2002) The effect of the promoter on expression of VP60 gene from rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus in potato plants. Plant Sci. 162 , 87–95] to 0.56–0.28 µg antigenic VP60 (measured with VP60 enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay) of crude CTB::VP60 pea extracts was demonstrated. Rabbits immunized with pea‐derived CTB::VP60 showed anti‐VP60‐specific antibodies, similar to RikaVacc^®‐immunized rabbits, and survived RHDV challenge.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Am I My Parents’Keeper?, by Norman Daniels Legal Issues in Human Reproduction, Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean Health Care Systems: Moral Conflicts in European and American Public Policy, edited by Hans-Martin Sass and Robert U. Massey Ethics in nursing practice: Basic Principles and their Application, by F.J. Fitzpatrick     

Introduction to General and Generalized Linear Models by MADSEN,H. and TYREGOD,P.

Introduction to General and Generalized Linear Models (H. Madsen and P. Tyregod) Clarice Demétrio Sample Sizes for Clinical Trials (S. A. Julious) Janet Wittes Learning and Inference in Computational Systems Biology. (N. D. Lawrence, M. Girolami, M. Rattray and G. Sanguinetti) Ernst Wit Brief Reports by the Editor Applied Probability, 2nd edition. (K. Lange) Regression Estimators: A Comparative Study, 2nd edition. (M. H. J. Gruber) Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS Examples, 3rd edition. (G. A. Walker and J. Shostak)     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article: Die Milben des Süsswassers (Hydrachnellae und Halacaridae [part.], Acari) Teil 1: Bibliographie, Teil 2: Katalog, by Kurt O. Viets. A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary Biology of the African Guenons, edited by Annie Gautier-Hion, F. Bourlière, J.-P. Gautier and J. Kingdon. Neurobiology of the Cardiorespiratory System, edited by E. W. Taylor. The Dragonflies of Europe, by R. R. Askew. Studying Fossil Horses, by V. Eisenmann, M. T. Alberdi, C. de Giuli & U. Staesche. Collected papers after the ‘New York International Hipparion Conference. 1981’ Volume I: Methodology, edited by M. Woodburne & P. Sondaar. E. J. Brill. The Hymenoptera, edited by Ian Gauld & Barry Bolton. A Study of Blackbirds, by David Snow Temperature Biology of Animals, by Andrew R. Cossins and Ken Bowler. Honey Identification, by Rex Sawyer. Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology, by R. N. Owen-Smith.     

New Books

Book reviewed in this article: Rosenblatt, J. S. & Snowdon , C. T. (eds.) 1996: Parental Care: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance. Lehner , P. N. 1996: Handbook of Ethological Methods, 2nd Ed. Denoël , M. 1996: Etude comparée du comportement de cour de deux sousespèces du triton alpestre (A Comparative Study of Courtship Behaviour of Triturus alpestris alpestris Goldschmidt , T. 1996: Darwin's Dreampond. Drama in Lake Victoria. König, B. & Linsenmair , K. (eds.) 1996: Biologische Vielfalt (Beiträge aus Spektrum der Wissenschaft). Bruce V., Green P.G. & Georgeson M.A., 1996: Visual Perception. Physiology, Psychology, and Ecology. Roth, G. & Prinz , W. (eds.) 1996: Kopf-Arbeit. Ricklefs, R. E. & Finch , C. E. 1996: Altern: Evolutionsbiologie und medizinische Forschung. Hausser , J. (ed.) 1995: Säugetiere der Schweiz/Mammifères de la Suisse/Mammiferi della Svizzera — Verbreitung, Biologie, Ökologie/Répartition, Biologie, Ecologie/Distribuzione, Biologia, Ecologia. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin.