For students, Leekley (economics, Illinois Wesleyan U.) introduces statistical techniques used for understanding business and the social sciences, including basic probability tools, ways to
summarize data using charts and graphs and summary statistics, Bayes' theorem, sampling, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing for one and two samples, contingency tables,
goodness-of-fit, analysis of variance, and population variances. He also addresses simple and multiple regression, and ends with discussion of classical time-series analysis and applications to
business and economics. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
