Application of Monte Carlo AHP in ranking dental quality attributes

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 2310-2316

  Hsu, Tsuen Ho ^a   Pan, Frank F C ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b TAJEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Dental practice; Monte Carlo simulation; Service quality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DENTAL PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; HIERARCHICAL METHOD; SERVICE QUALITY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 56349105633     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.12.023     Document Type: Article

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