Variable construction for predictive and causal modeling of online education data

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 54-63

  Fancsali, Stephen E ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Apollo Group INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Causal discovery; Dimensionality reduction; Graphical models; Online education

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL DISCOVERY; CAUSAL MODEL; CAUSAL MODELING; COURSEWARE; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; GRAPHICAL MODEL; LEARNING OUTCOME; NOVEL METHODS; ON-LINE EDUCATION; PILOT STUDIES; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84856356437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2090116.2090123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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