TY - JOUR AU1 - Haigh, John AB - 264 Reviews [Part 2, lot to offer the open-minded package user, and this latest version could prove very rewarding to anyone prepared to invest the time in getting to know the control language. R.A. ELTON University of Edinburgh 7. Randomization Tests. By E. S. Edgington. New York and Basel, Marcel Dekker, 1980. xii, 287 p. 23 em. SFr 62. The appearance of this book raised some hopes with the reviewer that it would fill a notable gap in the literature by supplying a well-balanced, authoritative, and above all objective, assessment of this useful class of tests. Unfortunately, this publication does not fulfil, indeed does not set out to fulfil, these objectives. It is primarily intended, in the words of the author as "... a practical guide for experimenters on the use of randomization tests ...", and it fulfils this modest objective reasonably welL In this reviewer's opinion however any book devoted entirely to a study of randomization tests should really discuss in detail the reasons for using such tests and outline the steps that are often, and successfully, taken to render data more amenable to the application of classical tests. The author's obvious devotion to these tests often leads TI - Mathematical Population Genetics JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) DO - 10.2307/2981930 DA - 2018-12-05 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/mathematical-population-genetics-GLqjyy0DU4 SP - 264 EP - 265 VL - 144 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -