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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2007-7890</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Dilemas contemporáneos: educación, política y valores]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Dilemas contemp. educ. política valores]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-7890</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asesorías y tutorías para la investigación científica en la Educación Puig-Salabarría S.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2007-78902021000200025</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.46377/dilemas.v8i3.2646</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Análisis de clúster de universidades ecuatorianas según su posicionamiento en el ranking mundial]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Cluster analysis of Ecuadorian universities according to their position in the world ranking]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Vega Falcón]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Castro Sánchez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Fernando]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sánchez Martínez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Belkis]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>8</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-78902021000200025&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-78902021000200025&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-78902021000200025&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: El análisis de rankings de universidades y sus variables, ayuda a tomar decisiones a nivel ministerial dentro de cada país, resultando necesario la agrupación de estas instituciones en clústeres que maximicen la homogeneidad intra-grupos y la heterogeneidad inter-grupos, para la toma de decisiones. El objetivo fue conformar los clústeres de las 65 universidades ecuatorianas, según el posicionamiento de las variables que conforman el ranking mundial de estas. Fue un estudio observacional, retrospectivo, transversal y analítico, utilizando las k-medias e hipótesis mediante el ANOVA. Como resultado se conformaron tres clústeres de universidades ecuatorianas, según su posicionamiento en el ranking mundial. Se concluye que mediante el clustering se agruparon satisfactoriamente las universidades de Ecuador para una mejor toma de decisiones.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: The analysis of university rankings and their variables helps to make decisions at the ministerial level within each country, resulting necessary the grouping of these institutions in clusters that maximize intra-group homogeneity and inter-group heterogeneity, for decision making. The objective was to form the clusters of the 65 Ecuadorian universities, according to the positioning of the variables that make up their world ranking. It was an observational, retrospective, cross-sectional and analytical study, using k-means and hypotheses through ANOVA. As a result, three clusters of Ecuadorian universities were formed, according to their positioning in the world ranking. It is concluded that by means of clustering, Ecuadorian universities were satisfactorily grouped for better decision making.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ANOVA]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[análisis multivariante]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[k-medias]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[rankings de universidades]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[ANOVA]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[multivariate analysis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[clusters]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[k-means]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[university rankings]]></kwd>
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