The Analysis of the Structure of University Positions in Poland Using Classification Methods

Brzezińska Justyna ()
Additional contact information
Brzezińska Justyna: University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

Econometrics. Advances in Applied Data Analysis, 2020, vol. 24, issue 1, 71-81

Abstract: Categorical data analysis is a statistical method that can be successfully applied in different scientific areas, such as: social, medical, psychological and political sciences. Classification and segmentation are statistical methods that usually have been used for large quantitative datasets to identify segments in the data, however if applied for categorical data for contingency tables, one may arrive at impressive results as well. This paper presents the use of classification and segmentation methods for categorical data in a contingency table based on real data from Central Statistics on the number of university positions in Polish voivodeships. The authors compare the results of different approaches and provide graphical results using advanced visualization tools, perceptual map (biplot) and dendrogram. Comparative analysis provides information on corresponding categories of academic positions in different voivodeships. All calculations are conducted in R.

Keywords: categorical data analysis; classification methods; structure of university positions in Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 C31 C38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.15611/eada.2020.1.06 (text/html)

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:vrs:eaiada:v:24:y:2020:i:1:p:71-81:n:6

DOI: 10.15611/eada.2020.1.06

Access Statistics for this article

Econometrics. Advances in Applied Data Analysis is currently edited by Józef Dziechciarz

More articles in Econometrics. Advances in Applied Data Analysis from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().