AN APPLICATION OF THE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS TO THE STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS DROP – OUTS IN CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY การประยุกต์ใช้การวิเคราะห์การรอดชีพในการศึกษาการพ้นสถานภาพการเป็นนักศึกษา ของนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรี มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่

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Perachat Intachaisri
Manad Khamkong

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The purpose of this study was to apply survival analysis in studying survival function, median survival time, hazard rate of maximum dropping out and to find the factors influencing on the hazard rates using major, parental occupation, family income, GPAX of high school, GPAX before dropping out, academic years, habitation, school affiliation, university entrance system, entrance score and nationality as predictor. The population consisted of 44,579 undergraduate students in the academic years 2554 – 2559, Chiang Mai University. Data for this study were obtained from the office of The Registration Office of Chiang Mai University. The findings of the study indicated that most of undergraduate students dropouts after the  semester. The hazard rates of dropping out of students in all academic years were between from 0.01 to 0.12. The highest risk period occurs in the academic years 2554. The factors influencing on hazard rates of students drop out at the 0.01 level of significance were major, GPAX of high school, GPAX before dropping out, entrance score and habitation.

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Intachaisri, P. . ., & Khamkong, M. . (2019). AN APPLICATION OF THE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS TO THE STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS DROP – OUTS IN CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY: การประยุกต์ใช้การวิเคราะห์การรอดชีพในการศึกษาการพ้นสถานภาพการเป็นนักศึกษา ของนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรี มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่. Journal of Education and Innovation, 23(3), 217–228. Retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/edujournal_nu/article/view/176731
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