A qualitative perspective to deriving weights from pairwise comparison matrices

Omega

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 228-232

  Ramanathan, Ramakrishnan ^a   Ramanathan, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Data envelopment analysis; Pairwise comparison matrices; Qualitative judgments; Weights

Indexed keywords

EID: 70649103863     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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