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Economies Clustering Using SOM-Based Dissimilarity

verfasst von : Adam Chudziak

Erschienen in: Engineering Applications of Neural Networks

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Clustering of countries and economies has been done for a long time by expert comparing to ideal theoretical entities. More recently a data driven approach has been taken, including, so called, black box methods. In this paper a SOM-based dissimilarity measure is presented and used for agglomerative hierarchical clustering of economies. It turns out that the results differ significantly from those obtained via a more traditional Euclidean distance based approach.

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Metadaten
Titel
Economies Clustering Using SOM-Based Dissimilarity
verfasst von
Adam Chudziak
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44188-7_8

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