Predicting and analyzing secondary education placement-test scores: A data mining approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9468-9476

  Şen, Baha ^a   Uçar, Emine ^b   Delen, Dursun ^c  

^a YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KARABUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Data mining; Prediction; Sensitivity analysis; SETS

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS; DATA SETS; DECISION-TREE ALGORITHM; DEVELOPED MODEL; GRADE POINT AVERAGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; PREDICTION MODEL; PREVIOUS YEAR; SETS; SUCCESS FACTORS; TRANSITION SYSTEM;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; EDUCATION COMPUTING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84859217470     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.112     Document Type: Article

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