Judul: Penggerombolan Propinsi di Indonesia Berdasarkan Indikator Pendidikan Sekolah Lanjutan Atas Menggunakan Metode Ward dan Metode Fuzzy C-means
Abstrak: Education is one of factor success build a nation, not expection of Indonesia. Indonesia had done various education programs to create even distribution of education at all region in Indonesia. One of methods can use to knows this condition is cluster analysis. The purposes of this research are to clustering province in Indonesia building on indicator of senior high school education and to compare the result between Ward method and Fuzzy C-means. Data used in this research was secondary data indicator of senior high school education 2008, which obtained from Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), Jakarta. Object used consist of 33 province in Indonesia. Indicator of senior high school education are: (1) Broken School Rate; (2) Ratio of Student and Class; (3) Ratio of Student and Teacher; (4) Ratio of Class and School; and (5) Participation Crude Rate. First step is used descriptive analysis to know the condition of senior high school education at each province. Cluster analysis use Ward method and Fuzzy C-means method. The reason they chosen are resulting a small variance at cluster and data used in this research is a few. Sum of optimum clustering at Fuzzy C-means is obtained from Index Xie Beni criteria. Before conducting cluster analysis, assumptions of correlation between variable must be checked. To evaluated it used Principal Componen Analysis. Transformation result of Principal Componen Analysis shows percentage variance cumulative reach 93% at fourth main component. The determining which the best method used different test mean vector use Lambda Wilks’ criteria and minimum objective function. As a result, characteristic between Ward method and Fuzzy Cmeans method is not different. Sum of cluster obtained at Ward method and Fuzzy C-means are 3 cluster. According to Lambda Wilks’ criteria and minimum objective function, Fuzzy C-means method better than Ward method for data of indicator of senior high school education.
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Judul: Clustering the Quality of SHS/MA by Province Based on Accreditation Results Using the Fuzzy C-Means Method
Abstrak: Pemetaan mutu pendidikan di Indonesia perlu dikaji agar pemerintah provinsi sebagai lembaga yang bertanggung jawab atas kebijakan pengelolaan pendidikan menengah dapat lebih mudah dalam menentukan prioritas dan tindakan apa yang akan dilakukan guna meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan di Indonesia. Salah satu metode analisis yang dapat digunakan untuk memetakan mutu pendidikan adalah fuzzy c-means. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menggerombolkan peta mutu provinsi di Indonesia berdasarkan hasil akreditasi SMA/MA dengan menggunakan metode fuzzy c-means. Metode fuzzy c-means dapat memperlihatkan peluang objek masuk ke dalam suatu gerombol dengan derajat keanggotaan. Ukuran gerombol optimum yang didapatkan adalah 2 dan 3. Solusi akhir dari hasil gerombol dengan ukuran gerombol 2 adalah 12 provinsi yang dikategorikan dalam gerombol 1 dan 22 provinsi yang dikategorikan dalam gerombol 2. Penggerombolan dengan jumlah gerombol 3 menghasilkan gerombol 1 yang beranggotakan 11 provinsi, gerombol 2 yang beranggotakan 16 provinsi, dan gerombol 3 yang beranggotakan 7 provinsi. Karakter utama dari gerombol 1 adalah skor standar nasional pendidikan yang tinggi, sedangkan karakter utama dari gerombol 2 adalah skor standar nasional pendidikan yang rendah. Kemudian karakter utama dari gerombol 3 adalah skor standar nasional yang nilainya berada di sekitar rata-rata nasional., Mapping the quality of education in Indonesia needs to be studied so that the provincial government, as the institution responsible for secondary education management policies, can more easily determine priorities and what actions will be taken to improve the quality of education in Indonesia. One of the analytical methods that can be used to map the quality of education is fuzzy c-means. This research aims to classify the quality maps of provinces in Indonesia based on the results of SHS/MA accreditation using the fuzzy c-means method. The fuzzy c means method can show the probability of objects entering a cluster with a degree of membership. The optimum cluster sizes obtained were 2 and 3. The final solution with cluster size 2 was 12 provinces categorized in cluster 1 and 22 provinces categorized in cluster 2. Clustering with cluster size 3 resulted in cluster 1 consisting of 11 provinces, cluster 2 consisting of 16 provinces, and cluster 3, which consists of 7 provinces. The main character of cluster 1 is a high national education standard score, while the main character of cluster 2 is a low national education standard score. Then the main character of group 3 is the national standard score, whose value is around the national average.
Keyword: fuzzy c-means, cluster analysis, validity index, degree of membership, euclidean distance

Judul: Mud Crab’s (Scylla serrata Forskal 1775) Response to Different Decaying Level of Gold Snail (Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck 1822) Bait.
Abstrak: Mud crab is well known as omnivorous-vigorous-voracious-opportunistic-scavenger. These intertidal animals applies mainly chemoreception in their predatory behaviour. It has been commonly assumed that non fresh gold snail bait is better than fresh bait in stimulating the mud crab. This research's aim is to analyze mud crab response to different decaying level of gold snail bait. Their response were observed as time required to touch the bait and pattern and direction of the mud crab in approaching the baits. The different decaying level of gold snail baits were shown on Total Volatile Base Nitrogen (TVBN) as 16.3 mg/100g (0 day); 534.1 mg/100g (3 days); and 887.4 mg/100g (6 days). The research was conducted from July 2009 until February 2011. The TVBN test for gold snail baits were conducted at Laboratory of BBPPHP Jakarta. The experiment was conducted in Pemalang. The result showed that the average period of mud crabs to touch the baits were 52.14 minutes; 61.57 minutes and 52.57 minutes. Anova test concluded no sufficient evidence of significant effect of TVBN content of gold snail bait on mud crab’s feeding behaviour. Movement pattern B, i.e. left and right deviation followed by straight forward movement to the bait, was commonly exhibited by the crabs. Consequences of time period required by the mud crab to approach the bait on fishing operation is discussed.
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