Article ID: | iaor20063583 |
Country: | Spain |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 35 |
End Page Number: | 45 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
Journal: | Fuzzy Economic Review |
Authors: | Couturier A., Fioleau B. |
Keywords: | economics |
This article presents a method for fuzzy classification with overlap (ssim) and the results obtained by applying it to a sample of French companies. The ssim method allows stable company clusters to be recognised. The results are discussed and compared to those yielded by other fuzzy classification methods: the K-means method and the ‘fuzzy equivalence relation-based hierarchical clustering method’.