A comparison of neural networks and classical discriminant analysis in predicting students’ mathematics placement examination scores

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2074, Issue , 2001, Pages 952-957

  Sheel, Stephen J ^a   Vrooman, Deborah ^a   Renner, R S ^b   Dawsey, Shanda K ^a  

^a Wall College of Business   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84957868463     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45718-6_100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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