Title:

Analysis of happiness in EU countries using the multi-model classification based on models of symbolic data

Group publication title:

Ekonometria = Econometrics

Title in english:

Analiza zadowolenia w krajach Unii Europejskiej z zastosowaniem wielomodelowej klasyfikacji opartej na modelach danych symbolicznych

Creator:

Pełka, Marcin

Subject and Keywords:

happiness ; European Union ; symbolic data analysis ; ensemble clustering ; zadowolenie ; Unia Europejska ; analiza danych symbolicznych ; klasyfikacja wielomodelowa

Description:

Econometrics = Ekonometria, 2019, Vol. 23, No. 3, s. 15-25

Abstrakt:

The results of happiness analysis are presented in the form of a World Happiness Report that covers 156 countries and 17 different indicators. In the article model-based clustering ensemble is built to determine what selected European countries have similar patterns of happiness. The results are analyzed using multidimensional scaling and a decision tree to find out what factors determine cluster memberships. In the empirical part, three clusters were detected The first contains countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. They have the highest values for all the variables, except the negative affect. The second cluster contains seven countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. This cluster is also the most homogeneous one. The third cluster contains eight countries: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

Place of publication:

Wrocław

Date:

2019

Resource Type:

artykuł

Resource Identifier:

doi:10.15611/eada.2019.3.02

Language:

eng

Relation:

Econometrics = Ekonometria, 2019, Vol. 23, No. 3

Access Rights:

Dla wszystkich zgodnie z licencją

License:

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL

Location:

Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu