Managing Partner Imminent Domain LLC San Antonio, Texas, United States
The key to a good safety program is the ability to use data to assess its performance and quality. Data based decision making is the way to go. However, the information available today is overwhelming, often random, and miscellaneous. Furthermore, basic educational experience leaves us knowing how to add, subtract, multiple, and divide, but not necessarily with the ability of how to digest numbers to find patterns (decisional information) in the data. Even highly educated people can be numerically challenged. This session is a back to the basics with data characterization, types of data, measure of central tendency and dispersion. Then , it will be kicked up a notch with basic correlation and simple linear regression (predictive). All of this to provide a better ability to use data to assess your program(s).
Learning Objectives:
Describe how data is characterized
Define continuous data and attribute/discrete data
Distinguish differences between continuous data and attribute/discrete data