ILRLR 6030

Applied Data Analysis for Practitioners and Consultants

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This is a course in applied data analysis with an emphasis on inferential statistics and multivariate regression techniques. The course is practitioner-oriented; a wide variety of HRM, legal, and collective bargaining applications of regression analysis are covered. While the emphasis of the course is on the data analysis component of these applications, we will also consider the strategic and/or public policy implications. Examples of applications include: pay determination in a market pricing job evaluation system; the design of internal worth job evaluation systems; job evaluation maintenance when collectively bargained; wage/salary benchmarking under collective bargaining; the analytical methods behind executive compensation; the role of inferential statistics in HR analytics; and employment law compliance/equity auditing including ADEA, OFCCP audits, and pay equity audits in the U.S. public sector (and private sector-international considerations such as Canada and Europe).

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: Students should have completed, or be taking concurrently, the MILR required statistics course. Students who have been exempted from this course are assumed to have the background they would have acquired. 

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