Use of a Kohonen Self-Organizing Map to Classify Career Clients on the Basis of Aptitudes

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 357-380

  Carson, Andrew D ^a  

^a Ball Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptitude; Artificial neural network; Interests; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033470150     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106907279900700403     Document Type: Article

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