The prediction of students' academic performance using classification data mining techniques

Applied Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 129, 2015, Pages 6415-6426

  Ahmad, Fadhilah ^a   Ismail, Nur Hafieza ^a   Aziz, Azwa Abdul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Decision Tree; Educational data mining; Na ve Bayes; Rule based; Students' academic performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981215216     PISSN: 1312885X     EISSN: 13147552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12988/ams.2015.53289     Document Type: Article

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