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Saarela, Mirka; Kärkkäinen, Tommi – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Certain stereotypes can be associated with people from different countries. For example, the Italians are expected to be emotional, the Germans functional, and the Chinese hard-working. In this study, we cluster all 15-year-old students representing the 68 different nations and territories that participated in the latest Programme for…
Descriptors: Weighted Scores, Stereotypes, Standardized Tests, Student Characteristics
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Omar, Ahmad Fairuz; MatJafri, Mohd Zubir – Physics Education, 2011
The Swift Turbidity Marker is an optical instrument developed to measure the level of water turbidity. The components and configuration selected for the system are based on common turbidity meter design concepts but use a simplified methodology to produce rapid turbidity measurements. This work is aimed at high school physics students and is the…
Descriptors: Optics, International Organizations, Data Analysis, Mathematical Applications
Zhang, Bin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Social scientists usually are more interested in consumers' dichotomous choice, such as purchase a product or not, adopt a technology or not, etc. However, up to date, there is nearly no model can help us solve the problem of multi-network effects comparison with a dichotomous dependent variable. Furthermore, the study of multi-network…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Population Groups
McCormick, William T., Jr.; And Others – 1969
Presented are the results of a study conducted to develop algorithms for ordering and organizing data that can be presented in a two-dimensional matrix form. The purpose of the work was to develop methods to extract latent data patterns, grouping, and structural relationships which are not apparent from the raw matrix data. The algorithms…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Data Analysis, Data Processing, Mathematical Applications
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Morita, June G. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Presents a hands-on activity in which students use the tools to derive the basic procedure used by wildlife biologists worldwide for estimating the sizes of wildlife populations. Helps students gain the feelings of power and ownership of a statistical method that they derive themselves. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Processing, Estimation (Mathematics), Mathematical Applications
Pratt, D. B.; And Others – Research/Development, 1978
Reviews pattern recognition techniques of multivariate statistical analysis as a means of data reduction. (SL)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Processing, Information Processing, Information Utilization