Fuzzy cluster analysis on Spanish public universities

Adela García Aracil () and Davinia Palomares Montero ()
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Adela García Aracil: INGENIO (CSIC-UPV)
Davinia Palomares Montero: INGENIO (CSIC-UPV)

Chapter 49 in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación, 2010, vol. 5, pp 976-994 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación

Abstract: The present study tries to provide an alternative approach to the analysis of universities, by grouping Spanish public universities for the academic year 2006, into clusters that are statistically similar across all criteria, without making assumptions about the relative importance of each criterion. In (non fuzzy) clustering techniques, universities grouped according to particular performance. However, the same university could be important from more than one perspective at the same time, and to different degrees. Thus, in our view, a fuzzy clustering approach is more applicable. The results of the present analysis provide information on the situations of each Spanish public university within a national context.

Keywords: evaluation of universities; fuzzy cluster; Spanish public universities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 C14 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-84-694-0889-6
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