Model prediction of academic performance for first year students

Proceedings - 2011 10th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, MICAI 2011 - Proceedings of Special Session

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 169-174

  Garcia, Ernesto Pathros Ibarra ^a   Mora, Pablo Medina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Academic Performance; Data Mining; Prediction Model

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; BAYES CLASSIFIER; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; FIRST YEAR STUDENTS; MODEL PREDICTION; PREDICTION MODEL; SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84856085651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICAI.2011.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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