An improved statistical approach for consistency test in AHP

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 289-299

  Lin, Changsheng ^a,c   Kou, Gang ^b   Ergu, Daji ^d  

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

^b SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c YANGTZE NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Hypothesis test; Maximum likelihood estimation; Pair wise comparison matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890122529     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-013-1413-5     Document Type: Article

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