Abstract
Determination of Turkey Province with Cluster Analysis in terms of School Sports Activities
The success of a country in sport is related to education, science and technological developments, as well as the development of society and the policies pursued. For this reason, countries should take the necessary measures to succeed in sports by more focus on sports. In this study, which aims to establish the current state of Turkey in terms of school sports, it is aimed to examine the provinces in Turkey by using variables obtained from data from the 2017-2018 academic year, with clustering analysis, which is one of the multivarially statistical analysis techniques. Both hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering method is used to achieve the optimal clustering result. Ward's technique determined the number of clusters as three, the k-means method was applied according to three sets and the results were discussed.
Keywords
Cluster Analysis, Multivariate Statistics, Sports of School
