Sensitivity analysis of TOPSIS method in water quality assessment II: Sensitivity to the index input data

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2463-2474

  Li, Peiyue ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a   Qian, Hui ^a   Chen, Jie ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Assessment method; Input data; Multiple criteria decision making; Sensitivity analysis; TOPSIS; Uncertainty; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHODS; INPUT DATAS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; TOPSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

WATER QUALITY;

DECISION MAKING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE FOR ORDER PREFERENCE BY SIMILARITY TO IDEAL SOLUTION METHOD; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTION;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874973589     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2724-8     Document Type: Article

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