Analysis of Irish third-level college applications data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 361-379

  Gormley, Isobel Claire ^a   Murphy, Thomas Brendan ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

College course choice; EM algorithm; Higher education; Mixture models; Ranked data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645079160     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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