Which is the appropriate triangular distribution to employ in the modified analytic hierarchy process?

IMA Journal of Management Mathematics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-239

  Cox, M A A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

analytic hierarchy process; decision theory; modified analytic hierarchy process; Monte Carlo simulation; multidimensional scaling; triangular distribution

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); COMPLEX PROBLEMS; CURRENT PRACTICES; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; NUMERICAL VALUES; TRIANGULAR DISTRIBUTION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84863596894     PISSN: 1471678X     EISSN: 14716798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imaman/dpr012     Document Type: Article

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