Test-size reduction for concept estimation

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vats, Divyanshu ^a   Studer, Christoph ^a   Lan, Andrew S ^a   Carin, Lawrence ^b   Baraniuk, Richard G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive and non adaptive testing; Learning analytics; Maximum likelihood estimation; Sparse factor analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SIZE DETERMINATION;

ADAPTIVE TESTING; LARGE DATABASE; LEARNING ANALYTICS; MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF; TEST SIZE;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 85084013026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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