The article examines the relative sizes of the nation's partially sighted, legally blind but not functionally blind, and functionally blind populations as a function of age. (Author/CL)

Using a research design employing cross-sectional and longitudinal data, the analysis explores whether budgeting conforms more closely to a bureaucratic or coalitional model of organization. The data suggest that coalitional behavior is most easily discernible in budget decision-making when resources are relatively scarce. (Author/IRT)

Examines three hypotheses regarding the relative significance public bureaucracies assign to evaluation, examination, and seniority in making promotions. The significant effects of regional differences are of special interest because they indicate the degree to which intraorganizational advancement criteria are ultimately shaped by the…

The students in a basic course on probability and statistics in Trinidad demonstrated that the number of fatal highway accidents appeared to follow a Poisson distribution while the length of time between deaths followed exponential distribution. (MN)

Presenting statistical data, this article indicates that the population of Appalachia has grown nearly as fast as that of the nation between 1970 and 1976, while Appalachian per capita money income has continued to approach that of the national level. (JC)

Examines the implications of using the national median score for selecting children for Title I participation. (Author/AM)

Attempts to familiarize the reader with the current extent of use of the legal assistant, to analyze the major sources of attorney resistance to the more extensive use of the legal assistant, and to make predictions of the extent to which legal assistants will be utilized within the next ten years. (Author/RK)

Divorce rates in North America have increased sharply during the last century. Though this fact may best be understood as the result of many factors, one of them is the law. This paper provides a brief history of Canadian divorce laws and their relationship to divorce rates. (Author)

Discusses four basic aspects of data reference work: 1) How files are created as related to the main sources for acquisition of data files; 2) What publications help to identify available data files; 3) What variables appear in which data files; 4) What information about the physical medium of file storage is needed to use the file on a computer.…

Further explores the difficulties pertaining to limitations in the use and interpretation of the Index of Dissimilarity demonstrates some of the systematic biases resulting from these inadequacies and provides a mathematical refinement which overcomes some of the major problems inherent in the use of this index. (Author/AM)

A reporting system relaces the requirement of a complete set of cross-correlated data from every institution for every foreign student under its control. The new system makes available data on the total population of nonimmigrant and immigrant foreign students by state, institution, country, academic levels and fields of study. (LBH)

This description and comparison of the major economic statistical database services discusses such factors as public and proprietary data, value-added services, user training and support, data specialties, and pricing. (CLB)

Even the application of such mainstays of the institutional researcher's statistical tool kit as the t test and ANOVA is not always as straightforward as it seems. The researcher must first check to see that the underlying methodological and statistical assumptions are being met. (Author)

Reviews a model by Joel Kleinman (proposed in this issue) for comparing State infant mortality rates to long-term trends. Asserts that even States with non-significant test results may have problems needing attention. Argues that the model may not be practically applied by State health officials. (KH)

The approach of J. D. Sneed is used to argue for a distinction between theoretical and nontheoretical (or empirical) entities. Attention is directed toward this approach as an important facility for looking at statistics and for constructing a framework for the correct use of statistical theory in information retrieval experiments. (MBR)