Özet:

The usage of multivariate statistical analyses has been increasing rapidly over the last years. We can see that almost in all fields, from social events to economical incidents, researchers apply for more multivariate statistical analyses. When you look through to the banking sector, because the actors taking place in the banking sector whose effective and prosperous workings carry the great importance in the respective of country economies, researchers have started to use multivariate statistical analyses in this field since 1960’s. In this research, commerce banks taking the place in the Turkish banking system had been taken as a universe and the financial ratios having been derived from the financial tables of the year 2005 had been used. On this research firstly cluster analysis which is a multivariate statistical technic for the purpose of grouping banks showing the similar characteristic as regarding to financial ratios. Then, in order to put down the success of classification which is occurred and to reveal variables which have the great importance in this analysis, discriminant analysis which is a multivariate statistical technic is applied to the data of cluster analysis. Our research can be dealt with as a performance assessment for the reason that the financial ratios that are used in the research have showed the performance of the various sides of the business administration at that year

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