USE OF CLUSTER ANALYSIS FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES OF THE FEDERAL DISTRICT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SOUTHERN FEDERAL DISTRICT)

The article considers the current problem of selection of a limited number of the factors defining essential distinctions of subsystems from a large number of the indices characterizing functioning of social and economic system. For accomplishing the task authors offer to use methods of cluster analysis. The article gives the example of use of these methods for a research of a social and economic status of the cities of the Southern Federal District. On the basis of performed clustering several clusters are selected which include the cities with the close values of macroeconomic indices. The received results allow carrying out adequate assessment of a social and economic status of each city in comparison with the cities of the cluster in whole.

economic and mathematical methods, social and economic systems, subsystems, regional cities of the federal district, cluster analysis, clusters, clustering, macroeconomic indices, development of regions, descriptive statistics, tree diagram.

Darmanyan A. P., Filippov M V., Rudenko A. Yu., Shokhnekh A. V. Use of cluster analysis for assessmeny of the socio-economic development of cities of the Federal district (on the example of the southern Federal district) // Business. Education. Law. 2017. No. 4 (41). P. 28–32.