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Money & Business

Risk management

...statistical probability of a particular outcome. Results are often presented as ‘p’ values, denoting how statistically likely a particular outcome is. Strategic Review Analysis (SRA) or Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) This is an approach to understanding the likely variance to a schedule. Like the Monte Carlo, this is a mathematical simulation. Each...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...statistics, to determine the likelihood of a couple having offspring with genetic disorders such as sickle cell anaemia. Some genetic disorders such as phenylketonuria have had simple chemical detection tests available for some time. Once detected, careful control of diet prevents mental retardation, demonstrating the value of detecting the presence of a genetic disease...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...statistical tests to be used based on the selection. It starts off by asking ‘What type of question do you have?’, and by the time you reach one or other of the end points at the bottom, you should have obtained the relevant answer – the appropriate statistical test that you should use. Now this is an extremely useful scheme, but it would not typically be considered...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...statistics, they look extremely stupid. How could it be that children are doing statistics? So to test this, we used a machine that we have called the blicket detector. This is a box that lights up and plays music when you put some things on it and not others. And using this very simple machine, my lab and others have done dozens of studies showing just how good babies...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...statistical – the error rate increases with increasing pulse spreading. The simple model of allowing spreading by up to half a symbol interval is adequate for order-of-magnitude considerations, however. The main causes of pulse spreading differ between multimode and single-mode fibre, and will be considered next...Digital communications: 2.4.1 Multimode distortion -...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...statistics. Graduates from university with autism have the lowest employment rate. Only 7% of graduates with autism get jobs, full-time jobs. It’s unbelievable. It’s the lowest for anyone with a disability. And we thought, yeah, we’ll send him to university, challenge everything. We went. He should go. That’s how we actually thought. And then, as I told you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...statistics on mobile phone usage in the UK. Their report for May 2008 (Text.it, 2008) shows that in the whole of that month: 16.5 million people accessed the internet from their mobile phones 6.5 billion SMS (text) messages were sent both of these figures showed a considerable increase from previous years. In December 2008, the equivalent figures were 17.4 million and 7.7...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...statistics of testicular cancer survival from a rare chance up to the 1970s to around a 90% survival rate today. But the discovery of their efficacy is one of serendipity. The videos that follow throughout this course summarise the history and development of these drugs, with interviews with key players in the field. In the first video, you will meet Barnett Rosenberg...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs