Predicting pre-university students' mathematics achievement

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages 299-306

  Lye, Chun Teck ^a   Ng, Lik Neo ^a   Hassan, Mohd Daud ^a   Goh, Wei Wei ^a   Law, Check Yee ^a   Ismail, Noradzilah ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Back propagation neural network; Decision tree; Generalized regression neural network; Mathematics; Pre university

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651238304     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.12.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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