- Black Sea Journal of Engineering and Science
- Vol: 2 Issue: 4
- Classification of Villages in Bafra Province According to Small Ruminant Existence
Classification of Villages in Bafra Province According to Small Ruminant Existence
Authors : Hasan Önder
Pages : 136-137
Doi:10.34248/bsengineering.529508
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Publication Date : 2019-10-01
Article Type : Other
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