Questionnaire design improvement and missing item scores estimation for rapid and efficient decision making

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-23

  Ergu, Daji ^a,b   Kou, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

AHP; Emergency decision making; Induced bias matrix; Missing item scores estimation; Questionnaire design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864740647     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0922-3     Document Type: Article

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