This book will be aimed at high school and university students who need to take statistics to fulfill a degree requirement, and it will follow a standard statistics curriculum. But because statistics is a mathematical topic that is taught to many non-mathematical people in a manner that often overwhelms them, the presentation of the material will focus on the concepts rather than the computations. Students will learn the required maths involved, but the focus will be on interpreting final results as opposed to the details of the technique.

Robert A. Donnelly Jr. is an associate professor at Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware, with more than 15 years of teaching experience. He teaches classes in statistics, operations management, management information systems, and database management at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Bob earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, after which he worked for several years as an engineer in a local chemical plant. Despite success in this field, Bob felt drawn to pursue a career in education. It was his desire to teach (or maybe he just had a bad day) that took him back to school to earn his MBA and Ph.D. in operations research, also from the University of Delaware. Go Blue Hens! Bob's working experience prior to his teaching career has provided him with many opportunities to incorporate real-life examples into classroom learning. His students appreciate his knowledge of the business world as well as his mastery of the course subject matter. Many former students seek Bob's assistance in work-related issues that deal with his expertise. Typical student comments focus on his genuine concern for their welfare and his desire to help them succeed in reaching their goals. They also love when he cancels class because the roads in his backwoods neighborhood have flooded. While keeping teaching as his main focus, Bob performs consulting activities through his firm, Partners for Strategic Solutions, which provides services for businesses seeking management techniques to improve performance. He recently completed a test bank for a new textbook on mathematical modeling using Excel for Prentice-Hall Publishers. Bob has also remained current with today's technology with CIW certification as Master CIW Designer. You can reach him at partners@4strategicsolutions.com. It is obvious to anyone that Bob's first love is teaching. His children can attest to that when his eyes light up at the end of the day and he asks "Well, does anybody need help with their math homework?" Sometimes they say yes just to make him happy.