Decision Making with Uncertain Judgments: A Stochastic Formulation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Decision Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 443-466

  Hahn, Eugene D ^a  

^a SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Bayesian Inference; Logit Modeling; Markov Chains; Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM); Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642573291     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2003.02274.x     Document Type: Article

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