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A Comparison between the Naïve Bayes and the C5.0 Decision Tree Algorithms for Predicting the Advice of the Student Enrollment Applications

Version 1 : Received: 7 January 2021 / Approved: 8 January 2021 / Online: 8 January 2021 (13:04:44 CET)

How to cite: Kiffen, Y.; Lelli, F.; Feyli, O. A Comparison between the Naïve Bayes and the C5.0 Decision Tree Algorithms for Predicting the Advice of the Student Enrollment Applications. Preprints 2021, 2021010156. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202101.0156.v1 Kiffen, Y.; Lelli, F.; Feyli, O. A Comparison between the Naïve Bayes and the C5.0 Decision Tree Algorithms for Predicting the Advice of the Student Enrollment Applications. Preprints 2021, 2021010156. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202101.0156.v1

Abstract

In this preprint, we introduce a dataset containing students enrolment applications combined with the related result of their filing procedure. The dataset contains 73 variable. Student candidates, at the time of applying for study, fill a web form for filing the procedure. A committee at Tilburg University review each single application and decide if the student is admissible or not. This dataset is suitable for algorithmic studies and has been used in a comparison between the Naïve Bayes and the C5.0 Decision Tree Algorithms. They have been used for predicting the decision of the committee in admitting candidates at various bachelor programs. Our analysis shows that, in this particular case, a combination of the approaches outperform a both of them in term of precision and recall.

Supplementary and Associated Material

https://francescolelli.info/: Francesco Lelli Author's website

Keywords

dataset; comparison; algorithm; Naïve Bayes; C5.0 Decision Tree; student enrolment

Subject

Business, Economics and Management, Accounting and Taxation

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