Integrated assessment of auto industries by principal component analysis

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 348-362

  Azadeh, Ali ^a   Ghaderi, Seyed Farid ^a   Vazifeh, Asghar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Engineering Department   (Iran)

Author keywords

Auto industry; Economic indicators; NT; Numerical taxonomy; PCA; Principal Component Analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STANDARDS;

ECONOMIC INDICATORS; INTEGRATED MODEL; KENDALL-TAU CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL TAXONOMY;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY;

EID: 34248327978     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2007.012467     Document Type: Article

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