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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...analysis suggested that males showed greater neural connectivity within each brain hemisphere, while female brains demonstrated greater connectivity across hemispheres. Here, apparently, was scientific proof of the fundamentally dichotomous nature of human gender. A storm of media attention ensued. [An illustration of the brain] In many respects, the PNAS paper is...
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Article 10 mins
60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...data and make serendipitous discoveries. Transcript Artificial Vision One very common use of AI in science is for complex image analysis. Most AIs that perform image analysis are called “Convolutional Neural Networks” (CNN). A CNN is a special type of neural network that is based on simple models of how human vision works. A CNN learns an ensemble of simple pattern...
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Medical statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical statistics

...analysis of data and interpretation of results; this is typical of M249. It is relatively self-contained and should be reasonably easy to understand for someone with a good knowledge of introductory statistics. However, a few techniques and definitions are present in the extract without explanation. Mathematical/statistical content at the Open University is usually...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...analysis of this study is based on a simple regression (a statistical technique of estimating the relationship of one variable with another) of average daily infection rate against total reported cases per 1000 people, for 149 local authorities around the UK, on 8th April 2020. [Graph of total report cases and average daily infection rate for COVID-19] The analysis also...
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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...data are observed, or information becomes available. Section 3 introduces the main ideas of the Bayesian inference process. The prior distribution summarises beliefs about the value of a parameter before data are observed. The likelihood function summarises information about a parameter contained in observed data and the posterior distribution represents what is known...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun
Education & Development

The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun

...analysis instruments for authenticating student identity and verifying authenticity of their work. The biometric instruments are: Facial Recognition (FR): compares the face and facial expressions using images and videos. Voice Recognition (VR): compares voice structures with the learner model. Keystroke Dynamics (KD): compares the rhythm and speed of typing when using the...
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Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...analysis and design, allowing you to develop software that is fit for purpose, reusable and amenable to change...Enterprise systems are software applications that automate and integrate all many of the key business processes of an organisation. With some understanding of software development, in this free course, Software development for enterprise systems, you will learn...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Modelling and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...data, the binomial distribution. Section 3 investigates how data can be used to estimate the probability of success in a single Bernoulli trial and introduces maximum likelihood estimation...This free course is concerned with modelling and estimation and looks in particular at the binomial distribution. Section 1 starts by defining probability, introduces relevant...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs