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This program looks at the present and future population growth in the Gold Coast, Brisbane to Toowoomba corridor and Sunshine Coast from Caloundra to Noosa. The region of 22,420 square kilometres is likely to have up to 4 million people by 2026. This requires planning for future housing and commercial uses as well as for services and infrastructure. The South-East Queensland Regional Plan 2005-2026 will guide these and manage growth. Major aspects...
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Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...
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Who was the greatest baseball hitter of all time? How likely is it that a poll is correct? Is it smart to buy last year's highest-performing stock? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, and this film is an introduction to this vitally important subject in today's data-driven society. Explanations for terms such as mean, median, percentile, quartile, statistically significant, and bell curve, and scores of other statistical...
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Statistics is used in every branch of Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, Political Science, and more. In this course, the student will learn the fundamental topics of statistics with step-by-step lessons that feature worked example problems. Topics include populations, samples, frequency distributions, variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, histograms, z-scores, and much more.
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From weather forecasters to political analyzers, people make predictions by combining what they know about probability and using the information gained through data analysis. See how experimentation, observation, tree diagrams, and other methods are used to investigate and calculate the outcomes of permutations, combinations and dependent events.
13) 40-love
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A 22-year-old stats whiz sets out on a cross-country road trip to NYC with the hopes of convincing one of the world's greatest tennis stars he can help her defeat her most challenging rival in the upcoming championship tournament.
15) The big picture
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The Big Picture with Kal Penn uses breakthrough data and mapping to make powerful connections and visualize our world in amazing new ways. Hosted by Kal Penn, each episode uncovers surprising facts on topics like money, sex, food, crime, migrations and sports and generates maps and other visuals to help us understand the big picture. The series hopes to reveal how our world works, how we got here, and even where we're headed, while exploring powerful...
17) Clinical research: usefulness of diagnostic tests : methods, statistics, results & interpretation
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Provides an introductory overview of the research and data analysis methods used to assess the utility of diagnostic tests. After exploring the role of clinical research in informing decisions about patient care, the DVD looks at the tools that can assist investigators in this regard. The DVD also reviews several studies of diagnostic tests that have been conducted that have produced dichotomousoutcomes. In that regard, the concepts of sensitivity,...
18) The numbers game
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"Money. Sex. Marriage. Mortality. In 'The Numbers Game', data scientist Jake Porway tackles one of life's most daunting topics revealing the surprising science behind them. From mind-bending stats, hilarious man on the street experiments, and interactive game play. National Geographic delivers the answers to life's mysteries and gives you the tools to help take charge of your destiny and change your life forever."--Container.
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Students use data to identify and solve problems. From surveying and tallying school lunch preferences to experimenting and charting plant growth for a science fair, data is gathered in different ways. Students will learn to create, read and interpret information in pictographs, Venn diagrams, coordinate grids and bar, circle and line graphs. Consistency and accuracy is emphasized, and analysis of data using mean, median, mode and range is illustrated....
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