A Psychometric Analysis of the "Divide and Conquer" Principle in Multicriteria Decision Making

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 187-206

  Morera, Osvaldo F ^a   Budescu, David V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompositional judgments; holistic judgments; DAC; AHP; SMARTS.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040084891     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1998.2791     Document Type: Article

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