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Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...account of the differing probabilities of the potential outcomes of an event. Finally, you learned how to use these ideas in situations where there is a range of possible outcomes, some of which may be dependent on earlier outcomes. The technique used was that of a decision tree. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B874 Finance for...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...account. Home is important but so too is what is going on in the rest of a child’s world. School and spare-time activities, for example can provide opportunities for enhancing resilience. (Scottish Government, 2010) The crucial importance of this network is underlined by Ellis and Dietz (2017) who highlight that the impact of adverse experiences during childhood is even...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...account of his diagnosis of the wife of Justus. Read pages 95 and 101–103 of the following link to Galen’s account then watch Video 6: http://galen.bbaw.de/ epubl/ online/ cmg_05_08_01.php. (Note, you can reach these pages most easily by typing page numbers into the box on the right of the word ‘Seite’ (page) and then clicking OK). HELEN KING I'm Professor Helen...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...account of how often each kind occurs. In a single location, over time, the weather might range from freezing cold to swelteringly hot, and from drought to heavy rain. You could record all these aspects of weather over one year – say, daily temperature and rainfall – by drawing a histogram (or a ‘frequency chart’) for each (Figure 1). In each histogram, the height...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...account, then I might go and get myself a drink, and finally settle down to work. What this usually means is that I’ve wasted a lot of time before I settle down to study and usually run out of time to do the studying itself! I also know that if I have a lesson, I will leave doing the homework or preparation to the last possible minute. ...Week 1: Your motivation and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...account of these views, without bias, in the decisions they make appreciates that a diverse group of people will generate more creative solutions to problems and encourages this inspires people through a shared vision of future success and motivates them to deliver it leverages difference for high performance and provides responsive excellence to customers’, clients’...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...account something like the menstrual cycle, which is where a female’s physiology is going to change as her hormones fluctuate across the cycle. And if you’re not controlling for that as part of your experiment, then the outcomes really aren’t particularly useful. Now, if the researchers have been quite diligent and they are controlling for the time of the menstrual...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...account: The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of the grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs