Informing child welfare policy and practice: Using knowledge discovery and data mining technology via a dynamic web site

Child Maltreatment

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 383-391

  Duncan, Dean F ^a   Kum, Hye Chung ^a   Caplick Weigensberg, Elizabeth ^a   Flair, Kimberly A ^a   Stewart, C Joy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Child welfare outcomes; KDD; Knowledge discovery and data mining; Longitudinal data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; POLICY; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; NORTH CAROLINA; PUBLIC POLICY; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 53349117614     PISSN: 10775595     EISSN: 15526119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077559508318951     Document Type: Article

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