Abstract—In recent days, learning has radically changed and become beyond the conventional way of classroom teaching. With the advent of e-learning, the higher education aspiring students can leverage knowledge at their own time, own place and own pace. In West Bengal, e-learning has not been incorporated as a tool for higher education and as a result of which the GER is not at all impressive. This paper discusses the percentage of students’ enrollment in higher education in traditional way of learning and after incorporation of e-learning in higher education up to what extent the percentage increases. This paper also classifies the students who are willing to go for higher education along with the students who are not willing to go for higher education in both traditional ways of education as well as when e-learning is incorporated in higher education using Fisher’s Linear discriminant analysis.

Index Terms—Covariance matrix, e-learning, Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis, GER, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z normality test, pooled estimator

Anirban Das is with the Department of Computer Applications, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India (Phone: +919474623504, email:anirban-das@live.com)
Subhabrata Patra is with Department of Mathematics, Bengal College of Engineering & Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India (Phone: +919832157999, e-mail: suvi.b.patra@gmail.com).
Kajla Basu is with Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India (Phone: +919474532576, e-mail: kajla.basu@gmail.com).
Dilip K. Banerjee is with Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, West Bengal, India (Phone: +917278003690, e-mail: dkbanrg@gmail.com).

Cite: Anirban Das, Subhabrata Patra, Kajla Basu, and Dilip K. Banerjee, "A Study to Determine the Higher Education Enrollments of West Bengal Prior to and Subsequent to Incorporation of e-learning: A Discriminant Analysis Approach ," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 338-341, 2011.