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Zhou, Daniel Xiaodan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The ability to classify the political leaning of a large number of articles and items is valuable to both academic research and practical applications. The challenge, though, is not only about developing innovative classification algorithms, which constitutes a "classifier" theme in this thesis, but also about how to define the…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Social Systems, Classification, Statistical Distributions
Felder, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Micceri (1989) examined the distributional characteristics of 440 large-sample achievement and psychometric measures. All the distributions were found to be nonnormal at alpha = 0.01. Micceri indicated three factors that might contribute to a non-Gaussian error distribution in the population. The first factor is subpopulations within a target…
Descriptors: Special Education, Statistical Distributions, Psychometrics, Data Collection
Sarkar, Saurabh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the modern world information has become the new power. An increasing amount of efforts are being made to gather data, resources being allocated, time being invested and tools being developed. Data collection is no longer a myth; however, it remains a great challenge to create value out of the enormous data that is being collected. Data modeling…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Error of Measurement, Research Problems
Kinkead, John Clinton, II – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study had two primary objectives. First, this study sought to create a classification system to which publicly-controlled Carnegie classified Master's Colleges and Universities could be grouped according to geographical service (rural-serving, suburban-serving, or urban-serving. Second, once the classification system was developed and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Classification, Student Financial Aid, Public Colleges