User modeling - A notoriously black art

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6787 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 317-328

  Yudelson, Michael ^a   Pavlik Jr , Philip I ^a   Koedinger, Kenneth R ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

educational data mining; model complexity; model parsimony; model selection; User modeling

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MODEL ACCURACY; MODEL COMPLEXITY; MODEL FIT; MODEL SELECTION; PERFORMANCE FACTORS; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; USER MODELING; USER MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79960337680     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22362-4_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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