Efficiency Measures, as the Term Is Used in the Service

question 60

Multiple Choice

Efficiency measures, as the term is used in the service efforts and accomplishments (SEA) literature, can be described as:

• A) Measures that relate the quantity or cost of resources used to units of output.
• B) Measures that relate to the amount of financial and nonfinancial resources used in a program or process.
• C) Measures that relate costs to outcomes.
• D) Measures that reflect either the quantity or quality of a service provided.

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Definitions:

SSR

Sum of Squares due to Regression, representing the variation explained by the regression model.

SSE

Sum of Squares due to Error, a measure used in statistics to quantify the variance within a dataset, representing the discrepancy between the observed and estimated values.

Logistic Regression

A statistical method for analyzing datasets in which there are one or more independent variables that determine an outcome, which is categorical.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment or study that is expected to change in response to changes in another variable, the independent variable.