Book and Software Review of \yvan Pannatier: Variowin | Software for Spatial Data Analysis in 2d"

The book discussed in this review is one of the most recent additions to Springer's series on\Statistics and Computing". In contrast to many other books in that series, where multi{purpose statistical packages such as S PLUS R and XploRe are the matter of interest, Pannatier's book covers a very specialized collection of four Windows programs that can be used for spatial data analysis and variogram modeling of irregularly located data in two dimensions. The 91 pages of the book are split into six chapters, appendix, bibliography, and index. It includes a 3.5" diskette with programs containing the latest version of Variowin, i. e., version 2.2. The introduction in Chapter 1 gives an overview of the main features of the program and summarizes the history of the software, originally developed as part of Pannatier's Ph.D. research. Chapter 2 is probably the most important part of the book for readers with little time. It gives a quick start into the four programs included in Variowin 2.2: Prevar2D (construction of a pair comparison le), Vario2D with PCF (exploratory variography),Model (interactive variogrammodeling), and Grid Display (displaying grid les as pixel maps). Each page of this