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                                                                                    <journal-title>Sosyoekonomi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1305-5577</issn>
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                    <publisher-name>Sosyoekonomi Society</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2021.02.24</article-id>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Dış Ticaret Verileri İçin Kümeleme Analizi: Türkiye, Azerbaycan ve Kazakistan Örneği</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Cluster Analysis for Foreign Trade Data: The Case of Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan</trans-title>
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                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8983-118X</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Çılgın</surname>
                                    <given-names>Cihan</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Gerede Uygulamalı Bilimler Fakültesi</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0356-7443</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Kurt</surname>
                                    <given-names>Aslı Seda</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>DOKUZ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20210428">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>28</month>
                    <year>2021</year>
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                                        <volume>29</volume>
                                        <issue>48</issue>
                                        <fpage>511</fpage>
                                        <lpage>540</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20200824">
                        <day>08</day>
                        <month>24</month>
                        <year>2020</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20210404">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>04</month>
                        <year>2021</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2005, Sosyoekonomi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2005</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Sosyoekonomi</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Dış ticaret refahın en önemli kaynaklarından biridir. Ülkelerin nüfusları, kişi başına düşen gelir düzeyleri, ülkeler arasındaki uzaklık gibi faktörler ise dış ticaretin önemli belirleyenlerindendir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye ve Türk Cumhuriyetleri’nin ihracat ve ithalata ilişkin 2017 yılına ait veri setlerini, dış ticaretin temel belirleyenlerini de dikkate alarak kümelemektir. Çalışmada Türkiye’nin yanı sıra veri seti açısından uygun durumda bulunan Kazakistan ve Azerbaycan ülkeleri dikkate alınmıştır. Çalışmanın amacı doğrultusunda K-ortalama, Ward hiyerarşik kümeleme ve kendi kendini düzenleyen haritalar yöntemlerinden yararlanılmıştır. Uygulama sonuçları, ele alınan ülkelerin ihracat ve ithalatındaki kümelere ilişkin detaylı tespitler sunmaktadır.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Foreign trade is one of the most critical sources of welfare. Factors such as population, per capita income, and the distance between countries is among the crucial determinants of foreign trade. This paper aims to cluster the data set regarding the export and import of Turkey and Turkic Republics by considering other determinants of foreign trade for 2017. In this study, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, of which data sets are available, are considered, and Turkey. For this paper, K-means, Ward hierarchical clustering, and self-organizing maps are used. The findings of this paper present detailed evidence as to the export and import of the countries handled.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Dış Ticaret</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Kümeleme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  K-Ortalama</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ward Hiyerarşik Kümeleme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Kendi Kendini Düzenleyen Haritalar (SOM)</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Foreign Trade</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Clustering</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  K-Means</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ward Hierarchical Clustering</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Self-Organizing Maps (SOM)</kwd>
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