Research Article

Investigating Determinants of Student Satisfaction in the First Year of College in a Public University in the State of Qatar

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Network information.

Input layerCovariates1100-level course evaluation
2Citizenship knowledge and skills
3Sense of belonging
4Student interaction
5Awareness and utilization of campus resources
Number of unitsa5
Rescaling method for covariatesStandardized

Hidden layer(s)Number of hidden layers1
Number of units in hidden layer 1a3
Activation functionHyperbolic tangent

Output layerDependent variables1Overall college satisfaction
Number of units2
Activation functionSoftmax
Error functionCross-entropy

aExcluding the bias unit.