CSTA Cohort Survival Rating Prediction using Artificial

Neural Networking
Harold R. Lucero
School of Information Technology
Colegio De Sta. Teresa De Avila, Inc.
[email protected]
+639088883692

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TABLE I. TABLE STYLES

Table Table Column Head [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I.N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529-551, April 1955.
copy More table copya (references)
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote) [2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol.
2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68-73.
b.
[3] I.S. Jacobs and C.P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption) anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G.T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. New
York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271-350.
We suggest that you use a text box to insert a graphic [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
(which is ideally a 300 dpi resolution TIFF or EPS file [5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
with all fonts embedded) because this method is somewhat Stand. Abbrev., in press.
more stable than directly inserting a picture. [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopy
studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEE
To have non-visible rules on your frame, use the Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740-741, August 1987 [Digests 9th
MSWord “Format” pull-down menu, select Text Box > Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
Colors and Lines to choose No Fill and No Line. [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
University Science, 1989.