Global and local regression analysis of factors of american college test (act) score for public high schools in the state of Missouri

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-83

  Qiu, Xiaomin ^a   Wu, Shuo sheng ^a  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American college test; Geographically weighted regression; Global regression; Local regression; Ordinary least squares; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECONDARY EDUCATION; TESTING METHOD; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751610481     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.518020     Document Type: Article

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