"[8002EE93D73D]" . . "http://www.naun.org/multimedia/NAUN/m3as/16-538.pdf" . . . . . "1"^^ . . . "8" . "1"^^ . . "Measurement of disparities between countries or regions is an important topic of many regional analysis and scientific papers. In European Union (EU), there is no mainstream approach of disparities measuring. There are many opinions and methods of measurement and evaluation of disparities between states or regions at national and European level. The methods differ in structure of using the indicators of disparities and ways of their processing. The main goal of the paper is to classify the Visegrad Four Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) to homogeneous units (clusters) in comparison with Germany and Austria according to the similarity of selected indicators of economic, social and territorial development by cluster analysis in reference period 2000-2010 with focus of three milestones years (2000, 2005 and 2010). The paper evaluates the level of economic, social and territorial disparities in evaluated countries in the period 2000-2010 on the basis of selected mathematical and statistical methods leading to construction of synthetic indices of disparities. The theoretical part of the paper defines the concept of disparities in the EU and focuses on selected convenient methods of the disparities measurement and evaluation. The empirical part of the paper deals with the evaluation and comparison of disparities in the Visegrad Four Countries, Germany and Austria by cluster analysis and subsequent through computed values of synthetic sub-indices of disparities and weighted (aggregate) synthetic index of disparities."@en . "RIV/61989100:27510/12:86082817!RIV13-MSM-27510___" . "135073" . "Evaluation of Cohesion in Visegrad Countries in Comparison with Germany and Austria by Multivariate Methods for Disparities Measurement" . . . . "Measurement of disparities between countries or regions is an important topic of many regional analysis and scientific papers. In European Union (EU), there is no mainstream approach of disparities measuring. There are many opinions and methods of measurement and evaluation of disparities between states or regions at national and European level. The methods differ in structure of using the indicators of disparities and ways of their processing. The main goal of the paper is to classify the Visegrad Four Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) to homogeneous units (clusters) in comparison with Germany and Austria according to the similarity of selected indicators of economic, social and territorial development by cluster analysis in reference period 2000-2010 with focus of three milestones years (2000, 2005 and 2010). The paper evaluates the level of economic, social and territorial disparities in evaluated countries in the period 2000-2010 on the basis of selected mathematical and statistical methods leading to construction of synthetic indices of disparities. The theoretical part of the paper defines the concept of disparities in the EU and focuses on selected convenient methods of the disparities measurement and evaluation. The empirical part of the paper deals with the evaluation and comparison of disparities in the Visegrad Four Countries, Germany and Austria by cluster analysis and subsequent through computed values of synthetic sub-indices of disparities and weighted (aggregate) synthetic index of disparities." . "Evaluation of Cohesion in Visegrad Countries in Comparison with Germany and Austria by Multivariate Methods for Disparities Measurement"@en . "US - Spojen\u00E9 st\u00E1ty americk\u00E9" . . "1998-0140" . "Meleck\u00FD, Luk\u00E1\u0161" . . "6" . "Evaluation of Cohesion in Visegrad Countries in Comparison with Germany and Austria by Multivariate Methods for Disparities Measurement" . . "RIV/61989100:27510/12:86082817" . "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES" . "11"^^ . . "Evaluation of Cohesion in Visegrad Countries in Comparison with Germany and Austria by Multivariate Methods for Disparities Measurement"@en . . "S" . "Weighted synthetic index of disparities; Standardized variable; Multivariate methods; Euclidean distance; Disparities; Cluster analysis; Cohesion"@en . . . . "27510" .