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A novel hybridization of classification trees and artificial neural networks for selection of students in a business school

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  • Tanujit Chakraborty

    (Indian Statistical Institute)

  • Swarup Chattopadhyay

    (Indian Statistical Institute)

  • Ashis Kumar Chakraborty

    (Indian Statistical Institute)

Abstract

In recent years, business schools face a common problem of selecting quality students for their Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs so that the target placement percentage is achieved. Selecting a wrong student may increase the number of unplaced students. Also, more the number of unplaced students more is the negative impact on the institute’s reputation. Business school authorities would therefore always want to ensure that they admit the right set of students to their MBA program. In this article, we used supervised learning techniques to model and select the optimal academic characteristics of students to enhance their placement probability. We propose a novel hybrid model based on classification tree (CT) and artificial neural network (ANN) which we call as hybrid CT–ANN model, to analyse business school data. A comparative study of various supervised models with our proposed model using different performance measures is also presented. Our finding shows that the proposed hybrid CT–ANN model achieves greater accuracy in predicting students’ placement than conventional supervised learning models.

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  • Tanujit Chakraborty & Swarup Chattopadhyay & Ashis Kumar Chakraborty, 2018. "A novel hybridization of classification trees and artificial neural networks for selection of students in a business school," OPSEARCH, Springer;Operational Research Society of India, vol. 55(2), pages 434-446, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:opsear:v:55:y:2018:i:2:d:10.1007_s12597-017-0329-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s12597-017-0329-2
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    1. Tanujit Chakraborty & Ashis Kumar Chakraborty & Zubia Mansoor, 2019. "A hybrid regression model for water quality prediction," OPSEARCH, Springer;Operational Research Society of India, vol. 56(4), pages 1167-1178, December.
    2. Zhang, Yucheng & Xu, Shan & Zhang, Long & Yang, Mengxi, 2021. "Big data and human resource management research: An integrative review and new directions for future research," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 34-50.
    3. Chakraborty, Tanujit & Chakraborty, Ashis Kumar & Murthy, C.A., 2019. "A nonparametric ensemble binary classifier and its statistical properties," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 16-23.

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