CLASSIFICATION OF VILLAGES IN BAFRA DISTRICT ACCORDING TO SMALL RUMINANT EXISTENCE

Year 2019, , 136 - 137, 01.10.2019

Hasan Önder

https://doi.org/10.34248/bsengineering.529508

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Classification of Villages in Bafra Province According to Small Ruminant Existence

Abstract

In
this study 103 villages belonged to Bafra province of Samsun city in Turkey was
clustered according to existence of small ruminant (sheep and goat) to classify
the villages for giving decision support to policymakers. For this aim
hierarchical clustering with nearest neighborhood method and Squared Euclidean
distance was used. Results showed that most of the villages had same
characteristics and only two of 103 villages differ from others according to
small ruminant existence. According to results same policies can be applied all
the villages in Bafra province except two villages (Tepebasi and Merkez -M)
which had more number of animals and business than others.

Keywords

Small ruminant, Hierarchical cluster, Policy making

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