Characterizing disagreement and inconsistency in experts' judgments in the analytic hierarchy process

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1252-1265

  Lin, Shi Woei ^a   Lu, Ming Tsang ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Disagreement; Expert aggregation; Experts; Inconsistency; Linear mixed models; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864115751     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211246996     Document Type: Article

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