We have great pleasure in presenting First edition “Quantitative Methods for Managers” written for students of UG courses. The related matters are written in a simple and easily understandable language with sufficient support from real business information.

This volume is an attempt to provide the students with thorough understanding of introduction to statistics, classification and tabulation, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, measures of correlation and regression, set theory, matrix, determinant of matrices, co-factors, inverse of a matrix methods and techniques. We have presented the subject matter in a systematic manner with liberal use of charts and diagrams where ever necessary so as to make it interesting and sustain student’s interest. We tank almighty for showering his substantial blessings and giving us the determination in preparing this book.

In writing this book we have benefited immensely from the studies of a number of books and the articles written by scholars spread over various books, journals and magazine. We are grateful to them.

Contents-

1. Introduction to Business Statistics
2. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
3. Measures of Correlation and Regression
4. Set Theory
5. Matrix