Modeling children's mathematical gift by neural networks and logistic regression

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 7167-7173

  Pavlekovic, Margita ^a   Bensic, Mirta ^a   Zekic Susac, Marijana ^a  

^a JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Mathematical gift; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TEACHING;

10-FOLD CROSS-VALIDATION; COGNITIVE COMPONENTS; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MATHEMATICAL GIFT; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATION; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 81355154660     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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