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STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS, second edition, M. Evans, N. Hastings and B. Peacock, Wiley, New York. 1993.
ISBN-0-471-55951-2 No. of pages: xx + 170. Price: L28.50.

Table of contents
29. Normal (Gaussian) distribution
1. Introduction 30. Pareto distribution.
2. Terms and symbols 3 1 . Poisson distribution
3. General variate relationships 32. Power function distribution
4. Bernoulli distribution 33. Power series (discrete) distribution
5. Beta distribution 34. Rayleigh distribution
6. Binomial distribution 35. Rectangular (uniform) distribution
7. Cauchy distribution 36. Rectangular (uniform) discrete distribution
8. Chi-squared distribution 37. Student’s t distribution
9. Chi-squared (non-central) distribution 38. Student’s t (non-central) distribution
10. Dirichlet distribution 39. Triangular distribution
1 1 . Erlang distribution 40. von Mises distribution
12. Error distribution 41. Weibull distribution
13. Exponential distribution 42. Wishart (central) distribution
14. Exponential family 43. Computing references
15. Extreme value (Gumbel) distribution 44. Statistical tables
16. F (variance ratio) or Fisher-Snedecor Bibliography
distribution
17. F (non-central) distribution AMS Classification: 65A05.
18. Gamma distribution Comments: Though small, this book is very
19. Geometric distribution interesting as it gives for the above mentioned
20. Hypergeometric distribution statistical distributions the most useful infor-
21. Inverse Gaussian (Wald) distribution mations (when available) including the statistical
22. Laplace distribution estimators of basic parameters of the distribution
23. Logarithmic series distribution considered. In chapter43, the reader will find,
24. Logistic distribution for all these distributions, software names in
25. Lognormal distribution which numerical results can be found. The pocket
26. Multinomial distribution book format is very easy.
27. Multivariate normal (multinormal)
distribution Audience: Research workers, teachers, other
28. Negative binomial distribution professionals and students.

THE STOCHASTIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (BASIC PERTURBATION TECHNIQUE AND COMPUTER
IMPLEMENTATION), M. Kleiber and T. D. Hien, Wiley, Chichester, U.K., 1992. ISBN-0-471-93626-X No. of
pages: xiv + 322. Price: €49.95.

TabIe of contents 8. Program SFEDYN. A code for the determin-

Part I: Preliminaries
1 . Some mathematical background
2. FEM (finite element method) in deterministic
structural analysis
Part 11: FEM in stochastic analysis
3. Stochastic variational principles
4. Stochastic finite element analysis
5 . Stochastic sensitivity: static problems
6. Program SFESTA. A code for the determin-
istic and stochastic analysis of statics and
static sensitivity of 3D trusses.
7. Stochastic sensitivity: dynamic problems
istic and stochastic analysis of dynamics and
dynamic sensitivity of 3D frames
9. SFEM (stochastic E M ) in nonlinear
mechanics
Appendix A: SFESTA-User’s manual
Appendix B: SFEDYN-User’s manual
Bibliography
Index
Glossary of symbols
AMS Classijication: 65N06,49M25, 70K99.
Comments: This book presents the SFEM
method as a result of the interaction between the