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HR / People Analytics · how-to

Engagement's Impact on Sales — driver regression — in SQL

A key-driver analysis. Every step below is the same analysis rendered for SQL — grounded in the source, honest where SQL can't do a step cleanly.

Same analysis, your tool

CORRELATE

confirm engagement tracks sales before modeling

corr(driver_j, outcome)

REGRESS

quantify how much each unit of engagement moves sales

SQL can’t do this cleanly

REGRESS has no clean sql form —

VALIDITY · mechanical

only keep the model if it is statistically reliable

corr(measure, criterion)

PREDICT

use the fitted equation to forecast the outcome

SQL can’t do this cleanly

PREDICT has no clean sql form —

FRAME · mechanical

frame engagement investment in business terms

SQL can’t do this cleanly

FRAME has no clean sql form —

Honest note: SQL can’t do 3 of these steps cleanly — the switcher shows which tools can.

Grounded in

Predictive HR Analytics with Excel — §15.5 Multiple Regression: Analyze Engagement

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