Comparison of Turkey and European Union Countries’ Health Indicators by Using Fuzzy Clustering Analysis

Nesrin Alptekin ()

International Journal of Business and Social Research, 2014, vol. 4, issue 10, 68-74

Abstract: In this study, it is aimed to classify of 27 European Union countries and Turkey with the healthcare indicators by using fuzzy clustering analysis. This study also investigates the position of Turkey compared to the European Union countries in terms of healthcare statistics. Fuzzy clustering analysis has been applied to the data obtained from 2012 World Health Report. Based on the Fuzzy clustering analysis, the countries were classified into two different groups. Turkey is placed in the same cluster as Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Keywords: EU Countries; fuzzy clustering analysis; health indicators. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 I10 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://thejournalofbusiness.org/index.php/site/article/view/607/474 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lrc:larijb:v:4:y:2014:i:10:p:68-74

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Business and Social Research from LAR Center Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Al Hossain ().