Proceedings of a conference at Pennsylvania State University in May 1992. Papers discuss nonnormal multivariate distributions, the present and future of Bayesian multivariate analysis, estimation in semiparametric models, inference of properties of sets from subsets, an information inequality for the Bayes Risk under truncated squared error loss, discrete passive modeling of physical systems described by partial differential equations, a general class of variable inequalities, and visualizing multivariate data. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.