Ensemble generation and feature selection for the identification of students with learning disabilities

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3896-3900

  Nanni, Loris ^a   Lumini, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classifier ensembles; Feature selection; Learning disabilities

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; CLUSTERING METHODS; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; EMPIRICAL - COMPARISONS; ENSEMBLE OF CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE TRANSFORM; JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS; LEARNING DISABILITIES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 56349148238     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.02.065     Document Type: Article

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