A statistical approach to multiple-attribute decision-making with interval numbers

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 34, Issue 12-13, 2003, Pages 683-692

  Zhang, Quan ^a   Ma, Jian ^b   Fan, Zhi Ping ^c   Chiang, Wen Chyuan ^d  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 1642543351     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207720310001640728     Document Type: Article

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