ABSTRACT

The Turkish banks have been tried to be clustered in several studies up to now. In this study the aim was to cluster the banks using their ratios too. In addition, different clustering methods were compered and their compatibility was also evaluated. Moreover apart from ratios, as a result of adding some categorical variables, The optimal scaling methods were also used for this clustering process. And all the results were interpreted by comparing one another. As a result, in this study an alternative method was suggested in case of the nominal and ordinal variables taking places in the analysis.