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A company's analyst examines whether last year's rise in employee attrition was linked to delayed appraisals by comparing attrition across departments with and without delays. This activity is best classified as:
This is diagnostic analytics. The analyst is probing past data to find whether delayed appraisals explain the rise in attrition, which is an investigation of causes. It neither merely reports figures nor forecasts or recommends actions.
- ADescriptive analytics, because it uses last year's data
- BPrescriptive analytics, because it aims to reduce attrition
- CPredictive analytics, because attrition is a future event
- DDiagnostic analytics, because it investigates the relationship behind a past outcomeCorrect
Explanation
Comparing groups to find the cause of a past rise in attrition is diagnostic analytics. Descriptive would only report the attrition figures. No forecast or recommended action is produced, so predictive and prescriptive are wrong.
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