Macro: Gordon-Vichi Macroeconomic Partition Data
Description
Soft partitions of 21 countries according based on macroeconomic data
for the years 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, and 1995.format
A named cluster ensemble of 5 soft partitions of 21 countries into 2
or 3 classes. The names are the years to which the partitions
correspond.source
Table 1 in Gordon and Vichi (2001).Details
The partitions were obtained using fuzzy $c$-means on measurements
of the following variables: the annual per capita gross domestic
product (GDP) in USD (converted to 1987 prices); the percentage of GDP
provided by agriculture; the percentage of employees who worked in
agriculture; and gross domestic investment, expressed as a percentage
of the GDP. See Gordon and Vichi (2001), page 230, for more details.References
A. D. Gordon and M. Vichi (2001).
Fuzzy partition models for fitting a set of partitions.
Psychometrika, 66, 229--248.