The class will use Excel™ for hands-on instruction and includes lecture, demonstration, and guided discussion.
Among the things you will learn:
- An introduction to statistics for Fire and EMS (without the difficult math).
- Templates and formulas to get you up to speed quickly with your own department data.
- Visual representations (tables and graphs) - which to use and when.
- Understanding the differences between large and small data sets and the special considerations with small data.
- Best practices in Fire and EMS data quality.
- How to set realistic performance objectives.
- How to identify outliers in data.
- Standards of cover: all the quantitative tools you'll need to work with accreditation peer teams.
- How to calculate effective response force and unit concentrations.
- Making percentiles, quantiles and cumulative frequencies simple.
- How to calculate measures that involve arrival times on scene.
- Unit and system reliability.
- A comprehensive yet palatable rundown of practices for use of statistics in fire service performance measurements, including compliance with NFPA 1710 and 1221: what works and what doesn't.
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