Analyzing and clustering students' application preferences in higher education

DOI10.1080/02664763.2019.1709052MaRDI QIDQ5861392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zsolt T. Kosztyán, Éva Orbán-Mihálykó, V. V. Csányi, Andras Telcs, Csaba Mihálykó

Publication date 1 March 2022

Published in Journal of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2019.1709052

zbMATH Keywords

application preferencesimpacts of financing changeinstitutional policyinstitutional preference characteristicspreference order clustering methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62Pxx)

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Cites work

• A generalization of the Thurstone method for multiple choice and incomplete paired comparisons
• Algorithm AS 136: A K-Means Clustering Algorithm
• The Large-Sample Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio for Testing Composite Hypotheses
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• Using gravity models for the evaluation of new university site locations: a case study

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• University rankings from the revealed preferences of the applicants

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Uses Software

• AS 136

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