The perpetual student: Modeling duration of undergraduate studies based on lifetime-type educational data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 311-330

  Kalamatianou, Aglaia G ^a   McClean, Sally ^b  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duration of studies; Lifetime type educational data; Modified goodness of fit procedure; Non parametric and parametric estimation; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; SURVIVAL; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUDENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 2942583123     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LIDA.0000012419.98989.d4     Document Type: Article

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