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19255486Boston: Smith & Porter Press 1925. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Marbled paper boards with navy backstrip printed paper title card on front board deckled edges. Limited edition privately printed copy. Bound-in hand-written note from the publisher "The President of the Society of Printers offers this little volume to a valued member of the Society. To Warren S. Kilburn from Herbert G. Porter February 1936." Edge wear/tearing and rubbing on edges of boards and head of spine; toning/discoloration on outer edges of front and back boards. Blue ink stamp on back pastedown. Binding tight text clean and unmarked. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Smith & Porter Press hardcover
19281388081New York: Grosset and Dunlap Publishers 1928. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo v 310 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering clipped front flap. Spine pictorial black yellow and blue with yellow lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including light scuffing and few instances of chipping to the head/tail edges. Boards have modest wear including some rubbing wear to the joints/edges mild age toning to the spine and few white spots to the rear. Slight tilt to the spine. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges. Previous owner's information to the front pastedown with minor offsetting to the front end paper. Partial cracking to the front hinge. Cracking and glue offsetting to the gutter to pages three hundred four and three hundred five. Frontispiece with minor impact due to damp staining to the head/fore edges. Minor foxing/soiling and minor damp staining to the fore edge to few pages interiorly. Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay a First National picture. Third edition. <br /> <br /> <p> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N ND-N. 1388081. FP New Rockville Stock. Grosset and Dunlap Publishers hardcover
194231799New York: Avon Book Company 1942. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Simon Howard. Murder Mystery Monthly #1. 310pp 10pp of publisher's advertisements. With illustrations by Howard Simon. Light wear and dusting to covers minor closed tears to the edges of some of the leaves text block mildly toned. A bright very good copy much better than usually found. ; Octavo. Avon Book Company unknown
1928311504boni & liveright 1928 first edition . very good -fine glazed hardcover in a mint looking color reproduction jaket boni & liveright hardcover
192806536SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN Boni & Liveright 1928 first edition spine dulled else a near vg copy. The source book for the film of the same name. Boni & Liveright unknown
1948220315280John Wiley & Sons Inc 1948-01-01. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc hardcover
19445180Washington: National Defense Research Committee 1944. First edition. <p>First edition very rare of Wald's seminal invention of 'Sequential analysis' the "notion that in some sense it is economical to observe and analyze data sequentially rather than to observe and analyze a single sample of predetermined fixed size" DSB. It is here offered in the original 'restricted' reports; it was published four years later in his well-known book Sequential Analysis. "It was Wald in 1943 who first formulated mathematically and solved quite generally the problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. He introduced the particular method of the sequential probability ratio test and with Wolfowitz 1948 showed its optimal properties" ibid.</p>. THE INVENTION OF SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS - THE ORIGINAL RESTRICTED REPORTS. <p>First edition very rare of Wald's seminal invention of 'Sequential analysis' developed while he was in charge of Columbia University's Statistical Research Group in response to the demand for more efficient methods of industrial quality control during World War II. It is here offered in the original 'restricted' reports; it was published four years later in his well-known book of the same title. "Wald's second major achievement in mathematical statistics is sequential analysis. The notion that in some sense it is economical to observe and analyze data sequentially rather than to observe and analyze a single sample of predetermined fixed size was not a new one. Intuitive support for this notion is immediate; if the evidence shown in sequentially unfolding data is sharply one-sided it seems reasonable to believe that the inquiry can be terminated early with lengthier inquiries reserved for those situations in which the issue at hand appears via the sequentially unfolding data to be in greater doubt. This notion and the partial mathematical formulation of it were to be found in the statistical literature; among those who dealt with it before Wald was Walter Bartky of Chicago and among Wald's contemporaries George Barnard working in England. But again it was Wald in 1943 who first formulated mathematically and solved quite generally the problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. He introduced the particular method of the sequential probability ratio test and with Wolfowitz 1948 showed its optimal properties. He found operating characteristic and average sample number functions; he introduced if he did not completely solve the problem of sequential tests of composite hypotheses utilizing weight functions; and he began vital discussions of such basic topics as multivalued decisions and optimal sequential estimation. All this plus many special problems were gathered together in Sequential Analysis 1947 a book surprisingly easy to read less formal and more elementary in structure than his work on decision functions" DSB. No copies listed on ABPC/RBH.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>"Sequential analysis is the branch of statistics concerned with investigations in which the decision whether or not to stop at any stage depends on the observations previously made. The motivation for most sequential investigations is that when the ends achieved are measured against the costs incurred including the cost of making observations sequential designs are typically more efficient than non-sequential designs .</p> <br /> <br /> <p>"The term 'sequential' is occasionally extended to cover also investigations in which various aspects of the design may be changed according to the observations made. For example preliminary experience in an experiment may suggest changes in the treatments being compared; in a social survey a small pilot survey may lead to modifications in the design of the main investigation . In a sequential investigation observations must be examined either one by one as they are collected or at certain stages during collection. A sequential procedure might be desirable for various reasons. The investigator might wish to have an up-to-date record at any stage either for general information or because the appropriate sample size depends on quantities that he can estimate only from the data themselves. Alternatively he may have no intrinsic interest in the intermediate results but may be able to achieve economy in sample size by taking them into account. Three examples will illustrate these points:</p> <br /> <br /> <p>1 An investigator may wish to estimate to within 10 per cent the mean weekly expenditure on tobacco per household. In order to determine the sample size he would need an estimate of the variability of the expenditure from household to household and this might be obtainable only from the survey itself.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>2 A physician wishing to compare the effects of two drugs in the treatment of some disease may wish to stop the investigation if at some stage a convincing difference can already be demonstrated using the available data.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>3 A manufacturer carrying out inspection of batches of some product may be able to pass most of his batches with little inspection but may carryout further inspection of batches of doubtful quality. A given degree of discrimination between good and bad batches could be achieved in various ways but a sequential scheme will often be more economical than one in which a sample of constant size is taken from each batch </p> <br /> <br /> <p>"The most appropriate design and method of analysis of a sequential investigation depend on the purpose of the investigation. The statistical formulation of that purpose may take one of a number of forms usually either estimation of some quantity to a given degree of precision or testing a hypothesis with given size and given power against a given alternative hypothesis. Economy in number of observations is typically important for sequential design" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>"The problem of sequential analysis arose in the Statistical Research Group of Columbia University in connection with some comments made by Captain G. L. Schuyler of the Bureau of Ordnance Navy Department. Milton Friedman and W. Allen Wallis recognized the great potentialities and the far-reaching consequences that sequential analysis might have for the further development of theoretical statistics. In particular they conjectured that a sequential test procedure might be constructed which would control the possible errors committed by wrong decisions exactly to the same extent as the best current procedure based on a predetermined number of observations and at the same time would require on the average a substantially smaller number of observations than the fixed number of observations needed for the current procedure. Friedman and Wallis also exhibited a few examples of sequential modifications of current test procedures resulting in some cases in an increase of efficiency. It was at this stage that they proposed the problem of sequential analysis to the author i.e. Wald. This gave the incentive for the author's investigations which then led to the development of the sequential probability ratio test. </p> <br /> <br /> <p>"Because of the usefulness of the sequential probability ratio test in development work on military and naval equipment it was classified Restricted within the meaning of the Espionage Act. The author was requested to submit his findings in a restricted report dated September 1943. In this report the sequential probability ratio test and the basic theory is given. To facilitate the use of this new technique by the Army and the Navy the Statistical Research Group issued a second report in July 1944 which gives an elementary non-mathematical exposition of the applications of the sequential probability ratio test and contains a considerable number of tables charts and computational simplifications to facilitate applications" Wald pp. 2-3.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>The 10 parts are as follows:</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis of statistical data: Theory September 1943.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential tests of statistical significance April 1944.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Applications 15 July 1944:</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis in inspection and experimentation Introduction Section 1;</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis when the result of a single observation is a classification as good or bad and when the result of the test is acceptance or rejection Section 2;</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis when the result of a single observation is a classification as good or bad and when the result of the test is a decision between two methods or products Section 3;</p> <br/> <br/> First report: Small 4to 230 x 180 mm original printed wrappers. Upper right corner with a slight bump. Previous owners initials to front wrapper W.L.D. Stamped RESTRICTED. IX 1179 3: blank pp. Second report: 8vo 244 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers fine. 10 2: blank pp. Third report: Large 4to 285 x 220 mm. Original ring binder containing the six sections in original printed wrappers together with the two appendicies aslo in wrappers: S1:VIII16; S2:II22; S3:II22; S4:II22; S5:II18; S6:II18; A1:II14; A2:II22 pp. In very good condition. Also included is the mimiographed distribution list of the third report: 1 sheet typescript printed on both sides. All three reports are in the rare original issue with the text: "This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Act 50 U.S.C. 31 and 32 as amended. Its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law". OCLC lists 8 copies of the first report 1 of the second National Institute of Standards and Technology and the third report is not located in any library. National Defense Research Committee unknown
194729690New York John Wiley & Sons 1947. Original cloth with gilt spine. No dust jacket. XII212 pp. Text illustrated. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Wald is considered the founder of statistical sequential analysis and the theory of decision functions. DSB XIV:121. </em> hardcover
1966BOOKS020379INew York: John Wiley & Sons. Good/No Dj. 1966. 8th Edition. Hardback. 8vo Ex-Library Later printing of the extremely scarce 1947 keystone book. This is an excellent reference copy/clean and crisp pages . John Wiley & Sons hardcover
19477020<p>New York: Wiley & Sons 1947 First edition. Original navy cloth. Octavo. Sixteen figures seven tables. A very good copy. Abraham Wald pioneered the science of decision analysis and in particular that of sequential decision making. Before Wald the traditional style of statistical decision was to posit a hypothesis make a predetermined number of measurements then make a decision whether to accept or reject the hypothesis. Wald realized that this procedure is quite wasteful and that many measurements could be saved if given the option to decide at every step whether to continue or stop the measurement process. This idea revolutionized the art of statistical testing and was later developed in the hands of computer scientists into a field known as on-line algorithms. "Most although not all of Wald's results were summed up in Sequential Analysis 1974. With minor exceptions the entire contents of this book were obtained by him. Such a phenomenon is rare in mathematical books and indicates the extent to which he founded and dominated the field of sequential analysis" DSB.</p> Wiley & Sons, hardcover
19962090202120809603Hosei University Press 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Hosei University Press paperback
1997USD_9780683030976LWW 1997. 1st. Hardcover. UsedLikeNew/UsedLikeNew. LWW hardcover
1997AME_9780683030976LWW 1997. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. LWW hardcover
1997Q-0683030973Williams & Wilkins 1997-01-15. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Williams & Wilkins hardcover
1993061278The University of Alabama Press. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover in near fine condition; faint shelf wear. DJ in near fine condition with faint edge wear now in protective mylar cover. Photos available upon request. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1993. The University of Alabama Press hardcover
20005656Jerusalem: The Author 2000 507 pp.; Experimental home edition of 8 copies; good condition. Size: 215155 MM The Author hardcover
1984Q-0894862383Hazelden 1984-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hazelden paperback
195017314Worcester MA: Achille J. St. Onge 1950. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln President of the United States in miniature published in 1950 by Achille J. St. Onge. Miniature volume vii 76pp 2. Blue morocco title in gilt on spine and front panel with decorative gilt illustrations. All edges gilt. Book measures 2 x 3 inches. From a limited edition of 1500 copies produced by The Chiswick Press of London. Light shelf wear to covers minor sunning to spine and front cover. An attractive and unique example of Lincoln's writing. Achille J. St. Onge unknown
19509022853Worcester MA: Achille J. St. Onge 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original full green oasis goatskin with covers and spine stamped in gilt. Miniature book measuring 2 x 3 inches. One of 1500 copies printed from Momotype Plantin type on Barcham Green hand made all rag paper at the Chiswick Press and bound by Sangorski and Sufcliffe. <br/><br/> Achille J. St. Onge hardcover
198366169Museum; Et Al. As New. 1983. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 48 pp. With 32 ills. 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum; Et Al paperback
19916214USA: Tara Publications 1991 64pp. includes music with the lyrics. Afterward by Herman P. Salomon - "Hispanic Liturgy Among Western Sepharadim" Size: 290220MM Tara Publications hardcover
1992Q-0679737316Vintage 1992-02-18. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
1979008568New York: Brunner/Mazel 1979. Reprint 1st Hogarth Press-1927 . Blue hessian. Fine/Fine. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Issued as Brunner/Mazel Classics in Psychoanalysis No.3 was originally No.13 in the Hogarth Press series. f/piece Abraham portrait527 pp.; pristine copy in nearly mint jacket in protective sleeve as acquired but must being a neurotic obsessional note however a faint brown outline of a very slight water-stain half-way down spine. Abraham 1877-1925 was a pioneer in attempting to apply psychoanalysis to personality or 'character' notably identifying and naming the 'anal' and 'oral' characters. This posthumously published work includes a full bibliography of Abraham's publications.Very scarce both in UK and with jacket. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. <br/> <br/> Brunner/Mazel unknown
1927460463London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 527pp. Green cloth gilt. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex on the front fly and another small bookplate on the front pastedown very slight scuffing on front board else a lovely fine copy. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press hardcover
192732864London: Hogarth Press. 1927. 1st Edition in English; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good with sunning wear and minor bumps. Leo H. Bartemeier's copy with his name written in on the front endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 527 pp . Hogarth Press hardcover
