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Machine learning approach for reducing students dropout rates

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dc.creator Mduma, Neema
dc.creator Kalegele, Khamisi
dc.creator Machuve, Dina
dc.date 2019-05-17T09:47:58Z
dc.date 2019-05-17T09:47:58Z
dc.date 2019-05-06
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T09:15:54Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-25T09:15:54Z
dc.identifier 2277-7970
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.19101/IJACR.2018.839045
dc.identifier http://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/123456789/70
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94682
dc.description Research Article Published by International Journal of Advanced Computer Research
dc.description serious issue in developing countries. On the other hand, machine learning techniques have gained much attention on addressing this problem. This paper, presents a thorough analysis of four supervised learning classifiers that represent linear, ensemble, instance and neural networks on Uwezo Annual Learning Assessment datasets for Tanzania as a case study. The goal of the study is to provide data-driven algorithm recommendations to current researchers on the topic. Using three metrics: geometric mean, F-measure and adjusted geometric mean, we assessed and quantified the effect of different sampling techniques on the imbalanced dataset for model selection. We further indicate the significance of hyper parameter tuning in improving predictive performance. The results indicate that two classifiers: logistic regression and multilayer perceptron achieve the highest performance when over-sampling technique was employed. Furthermore, hyper parameter tuning improves each algorithm's performance compared to its baseline settings and stacking these classifiers improves the overall predictive performance. Keywords Machine learning (ML), Imbalanced
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher International Journal of Advanced Computer Research
dc.subject Machine Learning (ML)
dc.subject Imbalanced learning classification
dc.title Machine learning approach for reducing students dropout rates
dc.type Article


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