Spectral clustering in educational data mining

EDM 2011 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 129-138

  Trivedi, Shubhendu ^a   Pardos, Zachary A ^a   Sárközy, Gábor N ^a   Heffernan, Neil T ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap Aggregating; Clustering; Educational Data Miumg; Ensemble Learning; Intelligent Tutormg Systems; Mixture of Experts; Spectral Clustering

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP AGGREGATING; CLUSTERING; EDUCATIONAL DATA MIUMG; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; MIXTURE OF EXPERTS; SPECTRAL CLUSTERING;

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; GRAPH THEORY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84857465730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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