How university entrants are choosing their department? Mining of university admission process with FCA taxonomies

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-233

  Romashkin, Nikita ^a   Ignatov, Dmitry ^a   Kolotova, Elena ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Formal concept analysis; University admissions

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC TECHNIQUES; HIGHER SCHOOL; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; SURVEY DATA; UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES; UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS;

DATA MINING; FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84857495195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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