The academic success of students is a priority for all universities. We analyze the students' success at university by considering the performance in terms of both 'qualitative performance', measured by their mean grade, and 'quantitative performance', measured by university credits accumulated. These data come from an Italian university and concern a cohort of students enrolled at the Faculty of Economics. To jointly model both the marginal relationships and the association structure with covariates, we fit a bivariate ordered logistic model by penalized maximum likelihood estimation. The penalty term we use allows us to smooth the association structure and enlarge the range of possible parametrizations beyond that provided by the usual Dale model. The advantages of our approach are also in terms of parsimony and parameter interpretation, while preserving the goodness of fit.

Attanasio, M., Enea, M. (2016). An association model for bivariate data with application to the anlysis of university students' success. JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 43(1), 46-57 [10.1080/02664763.2014.998407].

An association model for bivariate data with application to the anlysis of university students' success.

ATTANASIO, Massimo;ENEA, Marco
2016-01-01

Abstract

The academic success of students is a priority for all universities. We analyze the students' success at university by considering the performance in terms of both 'qualitative performance', measured by their mean grade, and 'quantitative performance', measured by university credits accumulated. These data come from an Italian university and concern a cohort of students enrolled at the Faculty of Economics. To jointly model both the marginal relationships and the association structure with covariates, we fit a bivariate ordered logistic model by penalized maximum likelihood estimation. The penalty term we use allows us to smooth the association structure and enlarge the range of possible parametrizations beyond that provided by the usual Dale model. The advantages of our approach are also in terms of parsimony and parameter interpretation, while preserving the goodness of fit.
2016
Settore SECS-S/05 - Statistica Sociale
Attanasio, M., Enea, M. (2016). An association model for bivariate data with application to the anlysis of university students' success. JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 43(1), 46-57 [10.1080/02664763.2014.998407].
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