Published 2022-03-01
“…In the first phase, the countries were clustered using the k-means algorithm, in the second phase, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model was implemented once on the clusters and then on all the countries without considering the clusters, and in the third phase, after presentation of the concept of resilience in the Covid-19 era, an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model was implemented with three criteria, including the results of data envelopment analysis model without considering the clusters, the results of data envelopment analysis model considering the clusters and the resilience, and then the ranking of the countries' performance in the face of Covid-19 was provided.Based on the studies and analyses, the total number of corona deaths, the percentage of
extreme poverty in the community, the CVD death rate, the percentage of the diabetes prevalence, the percentage of female smokers, the percentage of male smokers, stringency index, and the total number of patients with Covid-19 were selected as input parameters, while the total number of vaccinations, the total number of corona tests, population, the number of hospital beds, and GDP were selected as output parameters.After removing the countries with missing data, 88 countries remained which were analyzed in the three-phase method. …”
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