Stochastic judgments in the AHP: The measurement of rank reversal probabilities

Decision Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 655-688

  Stam, Antonie ^a,b   Silva, A Pedro Duarte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Decision analysis; Judgments; Multicriteria decision making; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040063717     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1997.tb01326.x     Document Type: Article

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