A Dictionary of Statistics (2nd edition)

When I had just started the reading to review The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics (Everitt, 2006) (RR 2007/92) the editor asked me if I would also cover this Oxford dictionary. Reviewing books is a special example of Queue Theory: the time it takes to review them is normally distributed (although the mean and variation depends on the reviewer – some do it in days and some take a few weeks). The arrival of review books is Poisson distributed, that is it is unusual to get two books in a week, more likely to get about one a...