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<p>Let’s say that your company is running a standard control and variant AB test on a feature to increase conversion rates on the landing page. The PM checks the results and finds a .04 p-value.</p>

<p>How would you assess the validity of the result?</p>


Experiment Validity

<p>You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many <em>t</em>-tests. What considerations should be made?</p>


<p>What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?</p>

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

Hundreds of Hypotheses

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

<p>Suppose there exists a new airline named Jetco that flies domestically across North America. Jetco recently had a study commissioned that tested the boarding time of every airline, and it came out that Jetco had the fastest average boarding times of any airline.</p>

<p>What factors could have biased this result, and what would you look into?</p>


<p>What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?</p>

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

Boarding Times Bias

A new airline came out as the fastest average boarding times compared to other airlines.  What factors could have biased this result and what would you look into?

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Business Solution Development:

Develop, maintain and coordinate department user requirements, data reporting and application requirements for projects that affect Medicaid Programs.

Assist with solution design and development.

Participate in and lead teams involved in projects that affect Medicaid programs and collaborate with project leads and team members from other departments.

Communicate and collaborate with appropriate staff to ensure suitability of solutions. Develop effective use of advanced analytical methods and tools to enhance the delivery of solutions to meet business requirements. As required, learn new business concepts and methods applicable to Medicaid Programs projects and initiatives.

Business Project Analysis:

Develop and apply appropriate analytical methods to assigned business projects and tasks.

Thoroughly document all aspects of project requirements, methodology, task schedule, and analytical results including interpretation of results, summary findings, and presentation reports.

Collaborate with staff and management in own and other departments as required to fully understand business scope, business constraints, and business implications of analytical results.

Program Management:
In support of and with assistance from the Director and Sr. Manager, assist with:

Developing and communicating overall project strategy to ensure that business requirements are fulfilled across all Medicaid Programs activities and projects.

Ensuring that all Medicaid Program required reports, data, and activities are completed and delivered accurately and on time. Managing all aspects of the planning, execution, and closure of such projects.

Evaluating and directing the development of best practices, project standards, procedures, and quality objectives utilizing established project standards, procedures, and quality objectives.

Conducting project kickoff meetings and communicating individual roles and project/program expectations and responsibilities to ensure that all project team members have the tools and training to perform effectively.

Providing leadership to project managers, project and business leads, and other staff who are assigned to work on Medicaid Programs activities and projects.

Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with Project Stakeholders, Business Relationship Managers, Project Office Managers, and other management and staff as necessary to provide oversight on Medicaid Programs activities and projects.

Identifying and analyzing business needs.

Translating business needs into appropriate and effective solutions.

Monitoring the design and implementation of solutions.

Establishing project baselines and developing project schedules.

Monitoring project milestones, timelines, technical deliverables, resource usage, critical dates, scope, costs, and quality to identify potential risks.

Identifying and tracking project issues and resolutions.

Facilitating the resolution of schedule and project related issues.

Assessing variance from project plans and implement measures to ensure projects remain within scope, time, cost, and quality objectives.

Tracking and reporting project status.

Preparing and presenting project updates to senior management and Executive Steering Committees.

Preparing and presenting business justification for tactical business priorities as required.

Facilitating the evaluation, selection, and contract negotiations for external vendors.

Managing vendor relationships in support of project goals.

Acting as a liaison between Medicaid Programs department, other HMSA Departments, subcontractors, and vendors.

Continuously providing constructive team feedback as is pertinent to Medicaid Programs projects.

Integrating, wherever possible, areas of improvement into the project lifecycle.

Coaching and mentoring less experienced department personnel.

Maintaining content of project websites to facilitate effective communication.

Studies & Reports:

* Produce concise, structured, and informative data analytic reports summarizing projects, objectives, methods & findings of program significance.

Document issues, background, data, methods, problems and alternatives, and results.

Other Duties/Functions:

Perform all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.

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<p>Business Solution Development: Develop, maintain and coordinate department user requirements, data reporting and application requirements for projects that affect Medicaid Programs. Assist with solution design and development. Participate in and lead teams involved in projects that affect Medicaid programs and collaborate with project leads and team members from other departments. Communicate and collaborate with appropriate staff to ensure suitability of solutions. Develop effective use of advanced analytical methods and tools to enhance the delivery of solutions to meet business requirements. As required, learn new business concepts and methods applicable to Medicaid Programs projects and initiatives. Business Project Analysis: Develop and apply appropriate analytical methods to assigned business projects and tasks. Thoroughly document all aspects of project requirements, methodology, task schedule, and analytical results including interpretation of results, summary findings, and presentation reports. Collaborate with staff and management in own and other departments as required to fully understand business scope, business constraints, and business implications of analytical results. Program Management: In support of and with assistance from the Director and Sr. Manager, assist with: Developing and communicating overall project strategy to ensure that business requirements are fulfilled across all Medicaid Programs activities and projects. Ensuring that all Medicaid Program required reports, data, and activities are completed and delivered accurately and on time. Managing all aspects of the planning, execution, and closure of such projects. Evaluating and directing the development of best practices, project standards, procedures, and quality objectives utilizing established project standards, procedures, and quality objectives. Conducting project kickoff meetings and communicating individual roles and project/program expectations and responsibilities to ensure that all project team members have the tools and training to perform effectively. Providing leadership to project managers, project and business leads, and other staff who are assigned to work on Medicaid Programs activities and projects. Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with Project Stakeholders, Business Relationship Managers, Project Office Managers, and other management and staff as necessary to provide oversight on Medicaid Programs activities and projects. Identifying and analyzing business needs. Translating business needs into appropriate and effective solutions. Monitoring the design and implementation of solutions. Establishing project baselines and developing project schedules. Monitoring project milestones, timelines, technical deliverables, resource usage, critical dates, scope, costs, and quality to identify potential risks. Identifying and tracking project issues and resolutions. Facilitating the resolution of schedule and project related issues. Assessing variance from project plans and implement measures to ensure projects remain within scope, time, cost, and quality objectives. Tracking and reporting project status. Preparing and presenting project updates to senior management and Executive Steering Committees. Preparing and presenting business justification for tactical business priorities as required. Facilitating the evaluation, selection, and contract negotiations for external vendors. Managing vendor relationships in support of project goals. Acting as a liaison between Medicaid Programs department, other HMSA Departments, subcontractors, and vendors. Continuously providing constructive team feedback as is pertinent to Medicaid Programs projects. Integrating, wherever possible, areas of improvement into the project lifecycle. Coaching and mentoring less experienced department personnel. Maintaining content of project websites to facilitate effective communication. Studies & Reports:  Produce concise, structured, and informative data analytic reports summarizing projects, objectives, methods & findings of program significance. Document issues, background, data, methods, problems and alternatives, and results. Other Duties/Functions: Perform all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed. LI-Hybrid</p>

<div id="sajCpTopImage"></div><div id="sajCpCustomDescription"><ol><li>Responsible for analysis, design, modeling and architecture for application systems and domains. Manages the maintenance and support of assigned application system(s). May participate in development, maintenance and support activities.</li><li>Leads or participates in the project planning process with clients, business analysts, and team members. Manages and/or participates in technical and business planning for future direction of application domain.</li><li>Manages or participates in short- and long-term planning sessions with clients to improve business processes. Generally involves using and improving information systems. Documents discussion and agreements.</li><li>Receives high-level business requirements and develops detailed requirements. Prioritizes efforts.</li><li>Refines resource requirements and forms project teams. Further defines estimates for financial, physical or human resources to support long-term projects and programs.</li><li>Leads small to medium-sized, moderately complex projects as assigned. Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects following HMSA's project management methodology.</li><li>Reviews and provides input to the requirements for the implementation of business solutions. Provides technical assistance to help in problem resolution.</li><li>Identifies system requirements. Devises or modifies procedures to solve problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, form of desired results, and integration of components. * Responsible for the overall health of all applications assigned. Manages the maintenance and support of assigned application system(s). Application assignments differ in complexity, scope, and business impact from the Application Lead assignments.</li><li>Complies with application architecture processes, principles, policies and standards. Provides input to architecture policies and standards for application systems and domains.</li><li>Makes buy vs. build recommendations. May provide input into evaluation of system options, risk, cost versus benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals.</li><li>Leads or participates in the evaluation and selection process for application packages within area of responsibility.</li><li>Designs complex solutions for application systems and domains. Participates in the identification of system requirements and works with the Application Lead to solve application problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations.</li><li>Develops technical specifications for applications. Serves as technical subject matter expert for development of new code or reuse of existing code.</li><li>Identifies best sources of data and works with data architects to ensure feasibility with corporate data sources, when needed.</li><li>May analyze integrated performance across multiple ETL components. May recommend improvements to system processes to maximize efficiency of applications. Participates in the identification of best sources of data.</li><li>Researches, recommends and applies middleware to facilitate the portability and scalability of applications. Utilizes middleware tools for designing and developing solutions when required.</li><li>Develops or modifies application components using disciplined software development processes. May participate in code walk-through occurring as needed on projects or if system problems require it.</li><li>Complies with quality standards and procedures. Participates in software inspections and quality reviews. Participates in defining development guidelines and standards to be utilized in software development and integration.</li><li>Conducts unit testing to ensure application meets specifications. Creates integration test plans. Designs and consults on test plans at all levels within an application domain.</li><li>Documents changes to application architecture, integration and conversion plans. Maintains architecture diagrams within application domain.</li><li>Provides ongoing maintenance of applications.</li><li>Analyzes existing application domain to identify and document opportunities for improvements.</li><li>Makes integrated components production ready by moving them to libraries, completing forms, following procedures, completing version control documents, etc.</li><li>Provides Tier II (application) support. May provide Tier III support. Troubleshoots existing systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develops solutions.</li><li>Provides application support as required in the absence of the Application Lead.</li><li>May provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members. Provides technical guidance. Develops reports and presentations for senior management, as needed. May be assigned the role of Team Lead which involves resource planning and making work assignments.</li><li>Mentors junior positions to increase core systems knowledge and HMSA IT best practices.</li><li>For applications systems assigned, participates in technical planning.</li></ol><div> </div><div>#LI-Hybrid</div></div><div id="sajCpQualifications"><div id="sajCpQualificationsRequired"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Required</h3><ul></ul></div><div id="sajCpQualificationsPreferred"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Preferred</h3><ul></ul></div></div><div id="sajCpIndustries"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Job Industries</h3><ul><li><a id="sajCpSingleIndustryLink" href="https://www.snagajob.com//job-search/q-Other">Other</a></li></ul></div>

<p><br><ol><br><li>Revise and/or develop medical policies in conjunction with assigned medical director and in accordance with Development and Approval of Medical Policy administrative policy; process includes appropriate and timely implementation and publication. </li><br><li>Support MM sponsored meetings by preparing and distributing an agenda, minutes, and documents to be discussed, and taking minutes (meetings to include UMC, OMD, TEC, IRR, Policy Workgroup). </li><br><li>Assist with activities, which include internal audits, quality assurance control, quality improvement, provider satisfaction and departmental policies and procedures, to meet and/or maintain regulatory/accreditation/line of business requirements. </li><br><li>Research and respond to requests from internal departments/units requesting information on new technology (including research supporting TEC activities), medical procedures, drug therapies, DME, etc. </li><br><li>Serve as a resource to internal and external staff regarding issues relating to administrative policies and procedures, medical policies, and researching and resolving problems. </li><br><li>Conduct/schedule training opportunities and develop/present reports and various documentation related to MM activities. </li><br><li>Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed. </li><br></ol><br></p>#J-18808-Ljbffr

<div id="sajCpTopImage"></div><div id="sajCpCustomDescription"><div><div>Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:</div><ol><li>Influence information strategy: By partnering with business unit leadership, and through the rationalization of the information value chain, the information architect will provide strategic recommendations to maximize the value of information assets via their creation, access and use.</li><li>Maximize value derived from data and analytics: Foster value creation using the organization's data assets, as well as the external data ecosystem. This includes aiding value creation through data exploitation, envisioning data-enabled strategies, as well as enabling all forms of business outcomes through analytics, data and analytics governance, and enterprise information policy.</li><li>Surface information priority: Assess the benefits and the risks of information by using tools such as business capability models to create an information-centric view to quickly visualize what information matters most to the organization based on the defined business strategy.</li><li>Enhance decision making: Use tools such as business information models to provide the organization with a future-state view of the information landscape that is unencumbered by the specific data implementation details imposed by proprietary solutions or technologies. Assist decision design.</li><li>Enable effective data and analytics governance: Suggest who can take what actions with what information, and under what circumstances. Assist data and analytics leaders, and business and IT leadership in developing information governance processes and structures.</li><li>Conduct business information modeling: Create and manage business information models in all their forms, including conceptual models, relational database designs, message models and others.</li><li>Manage risk: Aid the definition of data classifications and data zoning to allow information assets to be immediately identified and proactively managed as more information becomes federated in a digital economy.</li><li>Enable enterprise information management: Ensure that the architecture is used as a lens and a filter to identify, prioritize and execute the data and analytic initiatives with clear line of sight to enterprise strategies and business outcomes.</li><li>Secure data and analytic assets: Aid in the analysis of data and analytics security requirements and solutions, and work with the chief information security officer (CISO) to ensure that enterprise data and analytics assets are treated as protected assets.</li><li>Improve enterprise information management performance: Aid efforts to improve business performance through enterprise information solutions and capabilities, such as master data management (MDM), metadata management, analytics, content management, data integration, and related information management or information infrastructure components.</li><li>Collaborate with data and analytics leaders, data science and analytics specialists, information management staff, solution developers and business domain stakeholders, such as information managers, data stewards and business analysts.</li><li>Provides consulting support within projects to ensure architectural alignment.</li><li>Establishes relationships with business partners and the IT organization in order to provide data solutions to meet user needs and influence strategic initiatives.</li><li>Understands and keeps up to date with technology trends to enable evolving business and operation models.</li><li>Identifies and maps governance activities required to support regulatory compliance, and architecture assurance.</li><li>Ensures alignment of business roadmaps from current to future state technology roadmaps.</li><li>Maintains documentation of design and architecture analysis work.</li></ol><div> </div><div> </div><div><span>#LI-Hybrid</span></div></div></div><div id="sajCpQualifications"><div id="sajCpQualificationsRequired"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Required</h3><ul></ul></div><div id="sajCpQualificationsPreferred"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Preferred</h3><ul></ul></div></div><div id="sajCpIndustries"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Job Industries</h3><ul><li><a id="sajCpSingleIndustryLink" href="https://www.snagajob.com//job-search/q-Other">Other</a></li></ul></div>

<div id="sajCpTopImage"></div><div id="sajCpCustomDescription"><div><ol><li>Revise and/or develop medical policies in conjunction with assigned medical director and in accordance with Development and Approval of Medical Policy administrative policy; process includes appropriate and timely implementation and publication.</li><li>Support MM sponsored meetings by preparing and distributing an agenda, minutes, and documents to be discussed, and taking minutes (meetings to include UMC, OMD, TEC, IRR, Policy Workgroup).</li><li>Assist with activities, which include internal audits, quality assurance control, quality improvement, provider satisfaction and departmental policies and procedures, to meet and/or maintain regulatory/accreditation/line of business requirements.</li><li> Research and respond to requests from internal departments/units requesting information on new technology (including research supporting TEC activities), medical procedures, drug therapies, DME, etc.</li><li>Serve as a resource to internal and external staff regarding issues relating to administrative policies and procedures, medical policies, and researching and resolving problems.</li><li>Conduct/schedule training opportunities and develop/present reports and various documentation related to MM activities.</li><li>Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.</li></ol></div></div><div id="sajCpQualifications"><div id="sajCpQualificationsRequired"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Required</h3><ul></ul></div><div id="sajCpQualificationsPreferred"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Preferred</h3><ul></ul></div></div><div id="sajCpIndustries"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Job Industries</h3><ul><li><a id="sajCpSingleIndustryLink" href="https://www.snagajob.com//job-search/q-Other">Other</a></li></ul></div>

<div id="sajCpTopImage"></div><div id="sajCpCustomDescription"><ol><li>Responsible for analysis, design, development, integration, maintenance and support of applications. Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following:</li><li>Participates in the project planning and analysis process with clients, business analysts and team members.</li><li>Assist in sizing and the development of timelines.</li><li>Identifies and refines system requirements.</li><li>Complies with architecture processes, principles, policies and standards.</li><li>Assists in buy vs. build recommendations. May provide input into evaluation of system options, risk, cost versus benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals.</li><li>May evaluate and provide recommendations for application packages.</li><li>Designs moderately complex solutions.</li><li>Develops technical specifications for applications. Makes recommendations for the development of new code or reuse of existing code.</li><li>May identify best sources of data and works with data architects to ensure feasibility with corporate data sources, when needed.</li><li>Able to extract data from multiple sources. Able to design and implement complex data transformations. Able to load transformed data into information management system. May adjust processes to maximize efficiency of business user queries.</li><li>Utilizes development platforms, middleware tools and software frameworks for designing and developing solutions when required.</li><li>Develops or modifies application components using disciplined software development processes.</li><li>Complies with quality standards and procedures. Participates in software inspections and quality reviews.</li><li>Uses modern testing practices, builds unit tests and conducts testing to ensure application meets specifications. Implements and executes integration test plans with team.</li><li>Documents new or modified components, testing activities/results and other areas such as application-wide error handling and backup/recovery procedures.</li><li>Provides ongoing maintenance of applications.</li><li>Analyzes existing applications to identify and document opportunities for improvements.</li><li>Prepares releases for test and production. Validates deployment once released and communicates the change to stakeholders.</li><li>Provides Tier II (application) support. May provide Tier III level support. Troubleshoots existing systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develops solutions.</li><li>Delivers solutions as part of a team utilizing agile or waterfall methodology as applicable.</li><li>Provides feedback for team to improve in feedback sessions and/or retrospectives.</li><li>Provides technical coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members.</li><li>Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.</li></ol><div> </div><div>#LI-Hybrid</div></div><div id="sajCpQualifications"><div id="sajCpQualificationsRequired"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Required</h3><ul></ul></div><div id="sajCpQualificationsPreferred"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Preferred</h3><ul></ul></div></div><div id="sajCpIndustries"><h3 class="jobOverviewSubtitle">Job Industries</h3><ul><li><a id="sajCpSingleIndustryLink" href="https://www.snagajob.com//job-search/q-Other">Other</a></li></ul></div>

<p>Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:</p><ol><li><b>Influence information strategy:</b> By partnering with business unit leadership, and through the rationalization of the information value chain, the information architect will provide strategic recommendations to maximize the value of information assets via their creation, access and use.</li><li><b>Maximize value derived from data and analytics:</b> Foster value creation using the organization's data assets, as well as the external data ecosystem. This includes aiding value creation through data exploitation, envisioning data-enabled strategies, as well as enabling all forms of business outcomes through analytics, data and analytics governance, and enterprise information policy.</li><li><b>Surface information priority:</b> Assess the benefits and the risks of information by using tools such as business capability models to create an information-centric view to quickly visualize what information matters most to the organization based on the defined business strategy.</li><li><b>Enhance decision making:</b> Use tools such as business information models to provide the organization with a future-state view of the information landscape that is unencumbered by the specific data implementation details imposed by proprietary solutions or technologies. Assist decision design.</li><li><b>Enable effective data and analytics governance:</b> Suggest who can take what actions with what information, and under what circumstances. Assist data and analytics leaders, and business and IT leadership in developing information governance processes and structures.</li><li><b>Conduct business information modeling:</b> Create and manage business information models in all their forms, including conceptual models, relational database designs, message models and others.</li><li><b>Manage risk:</b> Aid the definition of data classifications and data zoning to allow information assets to be immediately identified and proactively managed as more information becomes federated in a digital economy.</li><li><b>Enable enterprise information management:</b> Ensure that the architecture is used as a lens and a filter to identify, prioritize and execute the data and analytic initiatives with clear line of sight to enterprise strategies and business outcomes.</li><li><b>Secure data and analytic assets:</b> Aid in the analysis of data and analytics security requirements and solutions, and work with the chief information security officer (CISO) to ensure that enterprise data and analytics assets are treated as protected assets.</li><li><b>Improve enterprise information management performance:</b> Aid efforts to improve business performance through enterprise information solutions and capabilities, such as master data management (MDM), metadata management, analytics, content management, data integration, and related information management or information infrastructure components.</li><li><b>Collaborate with data and analytics leaders:</b> Work with data science and analytics specialists, information management staff, solution developers and business domain stakeholders, such as information managers, data stewards and business analysts.</li><li><b>Provides consulting support:</b> Within projects to ensure architectural alignment.</li><li><b>Establishes relationships:</b> With business partners and the IT organization in order to provide data solutions to meet user needs and influence strategic initiatives.</li><li><b>Understands technology trends:</b> To enable evolving business and operation models.</li><li><b>Identifies governance activities:</b> Required to support regulatory compliance, and architecture assurance.</li><li><b>Ensures alignment:</b> Of business roadmaps from current to future state technology roadmaps.</li><li><b>Maintains documentation:</b> Of design and architecture analysis work.</li></ol>
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<ol><li>Revise and/or develop medical policies in conjunction with assigned medical director and in accordance with Development and Approval of Medical Policy administrative policy; process includes appropriate and timely implementation and publication. </li><li>Support MM sponsored meetings by preparing and distributing an agenda, minutes, and documents to be discussed, and taking minutes (meetings to include UMC, OMD, TEC, IRR, Policy Workgroup). </li><li>Assist with activities, which include internal audits, quality assurance control, quality improvement, provider satisfaction and departmental policies and procedures, to meet and/or maintain regulatory/accreditation/line of business requirements. </li><li>Research and respond to requests from internal departments/units requesting information on new technology (including research supporting TEC activities), medical procedures, drug therapies, DME, etc. </li><li>Serve as a resource to internal and external staff regarding issues relating to administrative policies and procedures, medical policies, and researching and resolving problems. </li><li>Conduct/schedule training opportunities and develop/present reports and various documentation related to MM activities. </li><li>Perform all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed. </li> </ol>#J-18808-Ljbffr

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