On Small Data Sets Revealing Big Differences
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We use decision trees and genetic algorithms to analyze the academic performance of students throughout an academic year at a distance learning university. Based on the accuracy of the generated rules, and on crossexaminations of various groups of the same student population, we surprisingly observe that students’ performance is clustered around tutors.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006