Statistical Foundation for Decision Making

Learners will gain an introduction to the tools and techniques for rational decision making in the emergency services and public safety sectors. These include: databases, statistics, probability, decision analysis, utility modeling, resource allocation, cost-benefit analysis and linear programming. They will be able to explain the relationship between a variety of analytical methods and the data requirements. Identifying and using the major steps in systems thinking, they will be able to perform a step-by-step analysis of a problem.