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Record W4399654739 · doi:10.54097/564wf468

Research on the Factors Determining the Chance of Graduate Admission

2024· article· en· W4399654739 on OpenAlexaff
Yansong Li

Bibliographic record

VenueHighlights in Science Engineering and Technology · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicAdvanced Statistical Methods and Models
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHomoscedasticityMulticollinearitySelection (genetic algorithm)NormalityAffect (linguistics)Linear modelEconometricsModel selectionComputer scienceLasso (programming language)PsychologyStatisticsActuarial scienceLinear regressionMachine learningHeteroscedasticityMathematicsEconomics

Abstract

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Nowadays, due to various reasons, more students are beginning to pursue higher academic degrees, such as master's degrees. This article discusses the factors that influence the chances of graduate admissions. The aim is to quantify each determinant by establishing a linear model, thus helping everyone understand how much each factor can affect the admission chance. The dataset used in this article comes from the Kaggle, which includes eight variables and 400 observations. This article establishes several multiple linear models using the smallest AIC selection, the smallest BIC selection, and the LASSO selection. Models are screened based on some indicative values such as R2adj, SSres, and R2. After establishing the final model, assumptions (Normality, homoscedasticity, multicollinearity, linear relationship) and prediction errors are checked to verify the model's effectiveness. The article ultimately finds that every predictor positively correlates with the admission chances. It means that the more achievements an applicant has, the higher the chance of admission. This conclusion is consistent with our initial hypothesis. The final results can help applicants understand the importance of each application material (predictor). By inputting their existing achievements for each predictor into the model, they can predict their chances of admission, identify deficiencies, and work on improvements.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.024
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.024
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.248
GPT teacher head0.464
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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