chapter 1 Getting Started with ArcGIS: Data Management and Basic Spatial Analysis Tools -- chapter 2 Measuring Distances and Time -- chapter 3 Spatial Smoothing and Spatial Interpolation -- chapter 4 GIS-Based Trade Area Analysis and Applications in Business Geography and Regional Planning -- chapter 5 GIS-Based Measures of Spatial Accessibility and Application in Examining Health Care Access -- chapter 6 Function Fittings by Regressions and Application in Analyzing Urban and Regional Density Patterns -- chapter 7 Principal Components, Factor, and Cluster Analyses, and Application in Social Area Analysis -- chapter 8 Geographic Approaches to Analysis of Rare Events in Small Population and Application in Examining Homicide Patterns -- chapter 9 Spatial Cluster Analysis, Spatial Regression, and Applications in Toponymical, Cancer, and Homicide Studies -- chapter 10 Linear Programming and Applications in Examining Wasteful Commuting and Allocating Health Care Providers -- chapter 11 Solving a System of Linear Equations and Application in Simulating Urban Structure.