Assessing the progress and the underlying nature of the flows of doctoral and master degree candidates using absorbing Markov chains

Higher Education

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 769-790

  Nicholls, Miles G ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite absorbing markov chains; Higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846781226     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-005-5275-x     Document Type: Article

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