Qualitative decision making with correlation coefficients of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 127-138

  Liao, Huchang ^a,b   Xu, Zeshui ^a   Zeng, Xiao Jun ^b   Merigó, José M ^c  

^a Sichuan University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chinese medical diagnosis; Correlation coefficient; Correlation measure; Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set; Qualitative decision making

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS;

CHINESE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION MEASURES; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; QUALITATIVE DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84922979818     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.12.009     Document Type: Article

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