Mining performance data through nonlinear PCA with optimal scaling

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-101

  Costantini, Paola ^a   Linting, Marielle ^b   Porzio, Giovanni C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Category point biplot; CATPCA; Student evaluation of teaching; Student opinion; Transformation plot

Indexed keywords

CATEGORY POINT BIPLOT; CATPCA; EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NONLINEAR PCA; NONLINEAR PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE DATA; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES; STUDENT EVALUATION; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION;

BENCHMARKING; OPTIMIZATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77649112722     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.771     Document Type: Article

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