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...statistics matter and how they can impact the future...[Photograph of Tim Harford looking head on at the camera through his glasses. He's wearing a black suit and a black and white tightly dotted shirt.] Eight years on from when Tim Harford first became the presenter of BBC statistics programme More or Less, the Open University's Professor Kevin McConway revisits their...

...statistics. This free OpenLearn course, Modelling and estimation, is an extract from the Open University course M248 Analysing data, a second level course that aims to bring you a wide-ranging, data-oriented presentation of many of the basic tools of modern practical statistics. Modelling and estimation consists of selected material from M248, Books A and B. It has three...

...statistical model by a single number, a point estimate for the parameter. Section 1 develops some aspects of maximum likelihood estimation. In particular, you will find out how to obtain the maximum likelihood estimator of an unknown parameter, using calculus. You will need to do lots of differentiation in this section. Section 2 introduces a number of important...

...Statistics with our FREE learning content. ...Find out more about The Open University's Mathematics courses. It’s impossible to address today’s world without encountering Maths and Stats at every step, and yet for many of us it’s a subject that we attempt to avoid at all costs. Browse through our FREE online courses and interactive games to find out more about the...

...Statistics Fisher's principles are at the basis of modern research in agriculture, medicine and industry. Measuring the Unmeasurable Combining genetics and statistics. Today's cutting edge research into the human genome uses Fisher's concept of maximum likelihood. The Quest for Certainty A Lonely Genius. Experts reveal the logic behind Fisher's ideas and their phenomenal...

...statistical models. Section 1 is concerned with the distributions of continuous random variables which are described by their probability density functions (pdfs) and cumulative distribution functions (cdfs). Section 2 is concerned with moments and covers, the concept of expectation or expected value, the familiar notion of the mean, also known as the first moment, two...

...statistics asks Learning to read charts - line charts Scatter plots over time Scatter plots more generally - charting one indicator against another Extending the scatter plot - bubble charts Three dimensions good, four dimensions better? Motion charts So where do we go from here? Introduction Transcript Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics portal, defines...