Statistical analysis of academic results before and after four years of Bologna

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1493-1502

  Hernandez, Wilmar ^a   Bonache, Jorge ^a   Cousido, Carmen ^a   Palmero, Javier ^a   Labrador, Manuel ^a   Alvarez Vellisco, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture models; Non parametric tests; Proportion tests; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650883982     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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