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COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

CURRIC/EDPSYCH/LIS 803
Course Description

Provides a broad overview of ways of formulating and investigating novel questions with tools from educational data mining and learning analytics including social network analysis, natural language processing, Markov modeling, Bayesian inference, and agent-based modeling.

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Graduate/professional standing

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