Book reviews
should be management rather than accountants or
operational researchers and furthermore that the time
they will be able to devote to the budget is limited.
The book sets out to demonstrate quantitative
methods in the field o f budgeting; however it leaves
one with the impression that the main probelms are
behavioural.
While the title may well strike a note of interest to
people in a number of professions, few of these who
read the book will gain more than this insight and
most will probably conclude that budgeting, in con-
trast to planning, is an area in which worthwhile OR
applications are limited to relatively few large inte-
grated organisations.
Alan A. LEWIS
EIlerman Lines
U.K.
WILLIAM G. COCHRAN, Sampling Techniques (3rd
edition), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England,
1977, £12.50.
This new edition of Cochran's Sampling Tech-
niques in the Wiley Series in Probability and Mathe-
matical Statistics brings up to date what is now a
minor classic of the statistical literature. The plan
(and much of the detail) of the new edition is as
before, but the text has been revised in places, some
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proofs have been simplified, some references to ear-
lier work have been omitted, and new material has
been added without however more than a slight
increase in the overall length of the book.
In most chapters there are one or two new sec-
tions, some the result of a slight expansion of mate-
rial from the 2nd edition, and some new as in the sec-
tion on Sampling from Two Frames (Chapter 5A) or
the sections on methods for obtaining usable (or any)
answers to sentitive questions (Chapter 13). There are
greater changes in Chapter 6 on Ratio Estimators
where the material has been reordered anO new sec-
tions introduced, and in that part of the b~ok which
deals with single stage cluster sampling, where there
are now separate chapters dealing respectively with
clusters of equal sizes (Chapter 9), and with clusters
of unequal sises (Chapter 9A). In the latter a variety
of recently developed methods are discussed and com-
pared.
The book is well set out, easy to rea i~, and this
reviewer detected only two minor typographical
errors in the text. It has become a standard account
of Sampling Theory as that theory has developed for
use in sample surveys, and should continue to serve
both as a text for courses in sampling theory and as a
work of reference.
N.L. LAWRIE
The University o f Strathclyde
Glasgow
ScotlatM