Power law distribution in education: Effect of economical, teaching, and study conditions in university entrance examination

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 449-457

  Gupta, Hari M ^a   Campanha, José R ^a   Chavarette, Fábio R ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gradually Truncated Power law distributions; Science and Mathematics Education; University Entrance Examination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038505601     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183103004656     Document Type: Article

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