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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...data. She interviews Carol Calvert on the issue, following her talk entitled 'Data – love the uncertainty'. ...As a pure mathematician, I've always been uncomfortable with the uncertainty in statistics. I work in the realm of absolute certainty. Certainty can persist for all time, and perhaps we could say, certainty can even persist outside of time. I can sketch a...
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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...data collect and analysis...Learning to teach: An introduction to classroom research: Further reading - School-Based Research: A guide for Education Students, edited by Elaine Wilson. Published by Sage, 2013. This is a text-book for students undertaking a Masters in Education degree. Research Methods in Education, Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrisson....
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...data reveals the scale of the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM) and how to support the planning of healthcare services...Female genital mutilation (FGM) prevalence is an estimated measure of the total number of women and girls living in a country at a given point in time who either have had or are at risk of FGM. It can be indirectly extrapolated from a country’s...
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Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer
Science, Maths & Technology

Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer

...analysis using data from different studies, found that patients with COVID-19 who were current smokers had ~2 fold increased risk of developing severe symptoms, but more research is needed to confirm this relationship. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by chronic inflammation of the lung airways and destruction of lung tissues. Smoking is one...
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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...data without performing both stages of the analysis, and it will become obvious that the two go hand in hand...Reading visual images: 3.2 Looking at the family - Activity 3 Look at the photographs in Figures 4 and 5. They depict families in different settings. How would we apply a content/context analysis to them? Make notes on the pictures, particularly with respect to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...data, open resources, open education and open science. “Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods” - Foster The open...
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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...analysis of interview data? Yes and no. There are probably too many issues at play in interviews to be able to approach them as specific foci in the writing up of research. However, what can be acknowledged is that, in addressing the question 'How do we know?', we need to be cautious about the claims we can make on the basis of an interview. Like any other research...
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Is Bitcoin a bubble - and why must it burst?
Money & Business

Is Bitcoin a bubble - and why must it burst?

...data from Bitcoin’s early days – from July 2010 to November 2017. The price of one Bitcoin did not rise above US$1 until April 16, 2011, then to US$10 on June 3, 2011 and US$100 on April 2, 2013. Since then the price rise has clearly been exceptional. We then applied an accepted method that is used to detect and date stamp bubbles after they burst. In essence, this...
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