| Sumario: | This article presents a list of some newly published books on statistical methods. Some of the books enlisted are: "Help-Wanted Advertising As an Indicator of the Demand for Labor," by A. Bezanson; "The Statistical Method in Economics and Political Science: A Treatice on the Quantitative and Institutional Approach to Social and Industrial Relations," by P.S. Florence; "Exercise Manual in Statistics," by K.J. Holzinger and B.C. Mitchell; "Business Statistics: A Book of Cases and Materials," by J.L. Snider and "How Should Accidents be Classified," by E.W. Kopf. Bezanson's book furnishes a new index of the trend of unemployment. For the construction of the several indexes, the Industrial Research Department of the University of Pennsylvania used the help-wanted advertising In daily and Sunday newspapers in Philadelphia for the period, April, 1928-1929, and also similar advertising in one of the leading papers in Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and New York. It is also informed that Holzinger and Mitchell's book contains exercises on tabulation, graphic methods, averages, measures of dispersion, point binomial and normal probability curve, sampling errors, correlation, and curve-fitting.
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