Selecting numerical scales for pairwise comparisons

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 750-763

  Elliott, Michael A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Balanced scale; Consistency ratio; Integer scale; Multiattribute utility theory; Pairwise comparisons; Power scale

Indexed keywords

BEST MODEL; CONSISTENCY RATIO; DECAY HEAT REMOVAL SYSTEMS; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION PROBLEMS; ENGINEERING DECISIONS; INTEGER SCALE; LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY; NUCLEAR FISSION REACTORS; NUMERICAL VALUES; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; SCALE TYPE;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 77950922825     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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