Chapter 11 - Human Resource Analytics - Carbery and Cross

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Causal factors
Are determinants. For example, education is a causal factor in employability, such that higher levels of education are determinants of greater job opportunities for individuals
Human resource (HR) analytics
The use of people-related data in analytical processes to address business issues
Human resource information system (HRIS)
A software system for data entry, tracking and information needs of the HR function
Inferential statistics
Make predictions about a population (e.g. employees within an organization) based on a sample of that population (e.g. a cross-section of employees in an organization); whereas descriptive statistics provide descriptions of a population
Variable
A thing (a phenomenon or element) that is liable to vary, or change