A comparative analysis of techniques for predicting academic performance

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nghe, Nguyen Thai ^a,b   Janecek, Paul ^a   Haddawy, Peter ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Data mining; Decision trees; Prediction

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FORECASTING; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; MINING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACADEMIC INSTITUTES; ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; BAYESIAN; CASE STUDIES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA-MINING ALGORITHMS; DATA-MINING TOOLS; NETWORK ALGORITHMS; OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS; POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS; PREDICTION; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; STUDENT POPULATIONS; THAILAND; VIET NAM;

STUDENTS;

EID: 50049083301     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2007.4417993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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