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paths of students and alumni (Luan, 2004), thus identifying which students will join particular course programs (Kalathur …, 2006), and which students will require assistance in order to graduate. Another important preoccupation is the academic … failure among students which has long fuelled a large number of debates. Researchers (Vandamme et al., 2007) attempted to …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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Schwarz. In this paper I evaluate the predictive ability of the Akaike and Schwarz information criteria using autoregressive integrated moving average models, with sectoral data of Chilean GDP. In terms of root mean square error, and after the estimation of more than a million models, the...
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There is no standard economic forecasting procedure that systematically outperforms the others at all horizons and with any dataset. A common way to proceed, in many contexts, is to choose the best model within a family based on a fitting criteria, and then forecast. I compare the out-of-sample...
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Retrieving valuable knowledge and statistical patterns from official data has a great potential in supporting strategic policy making. Data Mining (DM) techniques are well-known for providing flexible and efficient analytical tools for data processing. In this paper, we provide an introduction...
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The role of a system for the control of the data bases and the facilities offered by it is highly important in the success and performance of an executive informatics system. From this point of view, the analyze will take into account the facilities of working with evolved data bases and...
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Data Mining represents the extraction previously unknown, and potentially useful information from data. Using Data Mining Decision Trees techniques our investigation tries to illustrate how to extract meaningful socio-economical knowledge from large data sets. Our tests find 5 attributes...
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We compare the performance of both hedonic and non-hedonic pricing models applied to the problem of housing valuation in the city of Madrid. Urban areas pose several challenges in data mining because of the potential presence of different market segments originated from geospatial relations....
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Nowadays, when companies are dealing with severe global competition, they are making serious investments in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategies. One of the cornerstones in CRM is customer churn prediction, the practice of determining a mathematical relation between customer...
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International capital markets tend to be characterized by volatility, which is always a function of world economic and political environment and is frequently associated with contagion risk and increased cross-market linkages. This phenomenon affects both developed markets and emerging markets,...
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