Nonparametric Survival Analysis of the Loss Rate of Undergraduate Engineering Students

Min, Youngkyoung; Zhang, Guili; A. Long, Russell; J. Anderson, Timothy; Ohland, Matthew

doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2011.tb00017.x

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Nonparametric Survival Analysis of the Loss Rate of Undergraduate Engineering Students

Published in Journal of Engineering Education • Apr 1, 2011

Authors:

Youngkyoung Min

Guili Zhang

Russell A. Long

Abstract

Background As presented by Willet and Singer (1991), survival analysis can sensitively reveal rich information about when students leave their majors. Although survival analysis has been used to investigate student and faculty retention, it has not been applied to undergraduate engineering student r...

Subject

Nonparametric statistics

Mathematics education

Dropout (neural networks)

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