Using logistic regression to identify new at-risk freshmen

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-37

  Nichols, Jerry L ^a   Orehovec, Paul M ^a   Ingold, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Predicted probability of retention; Retention rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544366857     PISSN: 08841241     EISSN: 15407144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J050v09n01_03     Document Type: Article

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