Improving academic performance prediction using voting technique in data mining

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2010, Pages 820-823

  Paris, Ikmal Hisyam Mohamad ^a   Affendey, Lilly Suriani ^a   Mustapha, Norwati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Classification; Combination of Multiple Classifiers; Data Mining; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION; COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; DATA MINING METHODS; DATA SETS; PREDICTION; REMEDIAL MEASURES; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; VOTING METHOD; VOTING TECHNIQUES; WEAK CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFIERS; DATA MINING; FORECASTING; STUDENTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); STUDENTS;

EID: 78651588994     PISSN: 2010376X     EISSN: 20103778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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