Data mining application in higher learning institutions

Informatics in Education

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-54

  Delavari, Naeimeh ^a   Phon Amnuaisuk, Somnuk ^a   Beikzadeh, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Association rule analysis; Classification; Clustering; Data mining; Decision tree; Explicit knowledge; Neural network classification; Neural network prediction; Prediction; Radial basis function

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849109171     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2008.03     Document Type: Article

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