What satisfies students? Mining student-opinion data with regression and decision tree analysis

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-269

  Thomas, Emily H ^a   Galambos, Nora ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CHAID; Data mining; Decision tree; Student satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043088578     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:RIHE.0000019589.79439.6e     Document Type: Review

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