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Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...statistics in England and Wales show the following most commonly reported crimes: [Described image] Figure 1 TCSEW estimated 3.1m theft offences in the last 12 months. (England and Wales, based on interviews conducted between May and December 2020.) Activity 1 Crime statistics Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes How do these crime statistics help plan policing capacity?...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...statistics and answering questions associated with charts, graphs and tables. The basics are covered in our other course, Working with charts, graphs and tables, but it is not essential to have read it before you start this course. On any one day, if you look at a selection of newspaper or magazine articles, you will find that a number of them include a chart, graph or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...statistics Timing: Allow 25 minutes Data takes many forms – numbers, words, measurements, observations. The collection, compilation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data is crucial to social science research and to informing development practice. Data informs us of the number of people living in a city, the level of poverty in a country or the attitudes of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...statistics of a set of data. Boxplots are particularly useful for assessing quickly the location, dispersion, and symmetry or skewness of a set of data, and for making comparisons of these features in two or more data sets. Boxplots can also be useful for drawing attention to possible outliers in a data set. The other topic, which is covered in Sections 2 and 3, is that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...statistics. These use two categories of energy: Primary energy − this is essentially energy in its ‘raw’ form. Examples include crude oil before it is refined and the fuels used to generate electricity, such as natural gas and nuclear heat. Delivered (or final) energy − this is the energy that the consumer actually receives (and pays for): refined petrol and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...statistically significant pattern that showed a greater frequency of winners wearing red than blue. Conclusions can subsequently be drawn, based on earlier colour research, that this success is related to the psychological responses that individuals have to colour, in particular the perception that red is associated with dominance in the eyes of the opponent. Hill and...
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Article 10 mins
A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk
Society, Politics & Law

A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk

...Statistics suggests that more jobs were created than taken up by EU immigrants, it is claimed that benefit tourism is a main cause for the UK’s economy struggling. Net migration, which is calculated reducing the number of people immigrating, by the number of people emigrating, stood at 318,000 last year, which entailed 178,000 coming from the EU. Overall, about 2.3...
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Article 10 mins
Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Germany need a smooth Brexit just as much as the UK?

...statistical modelling by three economists at the Judge Business School of Cambridge University, I argued that the economic impact of Brexit (“hard” or “soft”) on the British economy is likely to be serious in the short run, but manageable if its government applies appropriate fiscal policies. The big loss from leaving, however, will be political and social....
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Article 5 mins