Whole-of-Government Framework

The Whole-of-Government Framework can be found here:

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ppg-cpr/framework-cadre-eng.aspx?Rt=1037

It looks something like this:




I'm no expert, but it doesn't look like it's accessible for the visually impaired.

The following page explains in more detail how it works/how it is used:

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/reports-rapports/cp-rc/2006-2007/cp-rc02-eng.asp#Introduction

The Government’s Priorities

The Government’s 5 priorities are:

A Proud and Sovereign Canada

There is nothing more fundamental than the protection of our nation’s sovereignty and security. The Government will rigorously defend Canada’s place in the world including through the realization of our strong Arctic vision and a responsible, effective path forward in Afghanistan.

A Strong Federation

Canada is more united today than it has been in 40 years. The Government will continue to strengthen the federation – and modernize its democratic institutions – through measures including formal limits on federal spending power and long-overdue reform of the Senate.

A Prosperous Future

Canada cannot be complacent about the continued growth of its economy. The Government will provide effective economic leadership and a prosperous future by aggressively moving forward with broad tax relief that includes a further promised reduction in the GST.

A Safe and Secure Canada

Canadians want their safe streets and communities back. The Government will continue to tackle crime and strengthen the security of Canadians by reintroducing important crime legislation with the new a Tackling Violent Crime Bill, and by putting a strong focus on safe communities and youth and property crime.

A Healthy Environment for Canadians

Canada’s environmental and health standards are already among the highest on Earth. The Government will continue to improve the environment and health of Canadians by delivering realistic and achievable results in areas such as environmental enforcement and product and food safety.

Source: http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?featureId=5

Instructions (Guide) for Developing a Management, Resources, and Result Structure

This document is a set of instructions, although I see it more as a guide, to develop (or if you prefer, implement) Program Activity Architectures (PAA), Performance Measurement Frameworks (PMF) and Management, Resources, and Results Structure (MRRS).

I found it useful. Constructive criticism: the pages showing the PMF tables didn't print out well on letter size paper in portrait layout. If I remember correctly, those pages are towards the end and print out well on landscape legal. I wish they would have made a pdf file, probably would have avoided this type of problem, and it would have made the document more portable and sharable.

Link: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/dcgpubs/mrrsp-psgrr/id-cm/id-cm_e.asp

RCMP Environmental Scan

A very nice document prepared by the RCMP, and publicly available.

It covers demographics, society, economy, politics & government, science & technology, environment and public safety & security at both the global and Canadian levels.

Link: http://www.rcmp.gc.ca/enviro/2007/index_e.htm

Kurtosis

Kurtosis is the degree to which the frequency distribution is concentrated around a peak, that is, it describes the sharpness of the central peak of the curve, usually as compared with the normal distribution.

Higher kurtosis means more of the variance is due to infrequent extreme deviations (more variance, less concentrated around the mean), as opposed to frequent modestly-sized deviations (less variance, more concentration around the mean)

The normal distribution is mesokurtic; the curve with a higher degree of kurtosis (peakedness) is leptokurtic; and the curve with the flat top (compared to the normal curve) is platykurtic.

Links:

http://www.riskglossary.com/articles/kurtosis.htm

http://mvpprograms.com/help/mvpstats/distributions/SkewnessKurtosis

http://www.statistics4u.info/fundstat_eng/cc_kurtosis.html

http://www.almprofessional.com/Articles/skew.pdf

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/faq/kurtosis.htm

Mean Absolute Deviation

The mean deviation is the mean of the absolute deviations of a set of data about the data's mean.

Mean deviation is an important descriptive statistic that is not frequently encountered in mathematical statistics. The mean deviation has a natural intuitive definition as the "mean deviation from the mean".

The average absolute deviation from the mean is less than or equal to the standard deviation.

When applied to time series, the mean absolute deviation becomes a measure of volatility.

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure of dispersion. It is defined as the square root of the variance. It measures how widely spread the values in a data set are. If many data points are close to the mean, then the standard deviation is small; if many data points are far from the mean, then the standard deviation is large. In a loose sense, the standard deviation tells us how far from the mean the data points tend to be. The standard deviation has the same units as the data points themselves.

When applied to time series, standard deviation becomes a measure of volatility.

See also: http://www.childrensmercy.org/stats/definitions/stdev.htm
http://www.quickmba.com/stats/standard-deviation/