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Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...write a few sentences in the spaces below summarising what you have learned, what you still feel you need to improve and how you might do that. This activity can identify areas for revision. Differentiate between null and alternative hypotheses for evaluations. Understand one-tailed or two-tailed tests in hypothesis testing. Understand when to use z-tests vs. t-tests....
Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...writing MMR: 1+1+1 3 on a window – echoing memorable scenes from the film Beautiful Mind in which Russell Crowe, playing mathematician John Nash, covers his windows with mathematical equations. Activity 4 What do you think? Was Channel Five irresponsible to dramatise the MMR–autism controversy, lending credibility to a scientifically discredited viewpoint? Or is it...
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: Katrina Br*?#*!@nd in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Figure 1 John Watson/Open University; Figure 3a–c T.H. Torsvik...
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence The author of this course is Peter Sheldon. Course image: Ryan Somma in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Figures 1 and 2 Peter Sheldon;...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...Write some notes explaining why traditional cost and management accounting systems may not provide adequate support for customer relationship marketing and what the likely adverse consequences of this failure might be. Discussion Customer relationship marketing (CRM) requires knowledge/understanding of customer profitability, rather than just turnover/revenue, since the...
Advanced German: Regional landscapes
Languages

Advanced German: Regional landscapes

...write a short piece about the three-nations region around Lake Constance...German regions and landscapes, local traditions and the notion of Heimat are at the centre of this free course, Advanced German: Regional landscapes. You will describe images, make notes from a variety of sources, and write a short piece about the three-nations region around Lake...
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...writing (2003), giving rise to the term ‘drive-by hacking’, although many instances have occurred quite simply because basic security features have not been activated. As a result, all the attacks on the LAN that I have described so far can be performed by someone who does not even have physical access to the site, but could be on the street nearby, for example in a...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...creative new ways to get across the problems as well as just the pretties. And I think that there has been an imbalance. I think the public has been and is ready to take more honest, balanced views about some of the big issues, and they don’t have to be sugar-coated or not dealt with at all. What would I like to work on now? I would love to make a film about some of the...