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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...introduction to Bayesian statistics. Section 1 discusses several ways of estimating probabilities. Section 2 reviews ideas of conditional probabilities and introduces Bayes’ theorem and its use in updating beliefs about a proposition, when data are observed, or information becomes available. Section 3 introduces the main ideas of the Bayesian inference process. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

...project at The Open University explains how this informal type of music education is playing an important and alternative role. Jazz musician Gary Crosby and his partner Janine Irons share their story of how they set up the band and why they feel so passionate about giving opportunities to inner city children to learn how to play jazz and to guide them on their way to...
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Audio 19 mins
Understanding homelessness
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding homelessness

...homelessness can be difficult, the reasons people find themselves on the streets can be as complicated and as varied as accessing any potential means of support. ...This dedicated OpenLearn content hub and the film The homeless problem, provide an introduction to some of the key issues and explain some of the reasons behind the recent increase in homeless figures....
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Article 30 mins
Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...project have shared some thoughts. [Photograph of Claire Hnna MP and her handwritten statement. See details below for full transcript.]Long before Sinn Féin, the SDLP took steps inside the Policing Board - there from November 2001 at the outset of the 'new beginning'. But what is today's snapshot assessment of the project and process - a question I put to party leader...
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Article 5 mins
Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...projected revenue streams, in the form of future water bills paid by Thames Water’s customers, to be packaged together, and for bonds to be issued against these revenue streams and then sold to investors. All this with the expectation that projected revenue streams would maintain their value. The bonds bought by investors were ‘backed’ by projected payments from...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding Fitness to Practise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Fitness to Practise

...project involved input from members of the public, regulators, professionals, employers, lawyers and the public. Its aim was to find out about public experiences of the Fitness to Practise process and what regulators can do to improve it. As part of the project, the OpenLearn course Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses' experiences of Fitness to Practise...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...project photograph. The history of army barracks in Ireland The building of a country-wide network of army barracks commenced in Ireland in the late seventeenth century. This came about in the aftermath of a major continental war – the War of the Grand Alliance (1689–1697). The grand alliance was led by William III of England, and included the Dutch Republic, Spain,...
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Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...Project) and to scientific expertise for FAO. He has coordinated research projects on climate change and agriculture and currently leads a large European (FP7) project on livestock and climate change involving four continents. J-F Soussana has also chaired a national scientific committee on ‘Ecosystems and Sustainable Development’ for the French national research...
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