Using hybrid data to model student success in engineering with artificial neural networks

Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 82-87

  Imbrie, P K ^a   Lin, Joe J J ^a   Reid, Ken ^a   Malyscheff, Alexander ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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