Methods to find the number of latent skills

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Beheshti, Behzad ^a   Desmarais, Michel C ^a   Naceur, Rhouma ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA MINING;

CROSS VALIDATION; LATENT FACTOR; PREDICTION ACCURACY; SINGULAR VALUES; SYNTHETIC DATA; WRAPPER APPROACH; WRAPPER METHODS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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