Research Article
Investigating Determinants of Student Satisfaction in the First Year of College in a Public University in the State of Qatar
| Input layer | Covariates | 1 | 100-level course evaluation | 2 | Citizenship knowledge and skills | 3 | Sense of belonging | 4 | Student interaction | 5 | Awareness and utilization of campus resources | Number of unitsa | 5 | Rescaling method for covariates | Standardized |
| Hidden layer(s) | Number of hidden layers | 1 | Number of units in hidden layer 1a | 3 | Activation function | Hyperbolic tangent |
| Output layer | Dependent variables | 1 | Overall college satisfaction | Number of units | 2 | Activation function | Softmax | Error function | Cross-entropy |
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aExcluding the bias unit.
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