Correlation coefficients of hesitant fuzzy sets and their applications to clustering analysis

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2197-2211

  Chen, Na ^a,b   Xu, Zeshui ^a   Xia, Meimei ^a  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Hesitant fuzzy set (HFS); Interval valued HFS

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS FAILURE; CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING PROCESS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY INFORMATION; GROUP DECISION MAKING; HESITANT FUZZY SET (HFS); HESITANT FUZZY SETS; INTERVAL-VALUED; MEMBERSHIP DEGREES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SOFTWARE EVALUATION; UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FUZZY SETS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84870243960     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2012.04.031     Document Type: Article

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