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2. Methodologies

Authors : Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Christiana Koliouska, Constantin Zopounidis

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In this section, we will develop three methodologies: the PROMETHEE II ranking method, the Hierarchical Cluster Analysis and the K-means analysis.

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Metadata
Title
Methodologies
Authors
Zacharoula Andreopoulou
Christiana Koliouska
Constantin Zopounidis
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Multicriteria and Clustering

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-55564-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-55565-2

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55565-2_2

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