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A Study for Obtaining Weights in Pairwise Comparison Matrix in AHP

  • Received : 2012.02.01
  • Accepted : 2012.04.16
  • Published : 2012.06.30
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Abstract

In this study, we consider various methods to estimate the weights of a pairwise comparison matrix in the Analytic Hierarchy Process widely applied in various decision-making fields. This paper uses a data dependent simulation to evaluate the statistical accuracy, minimum violation and minimum norm of the obtaining weight methods from a reciprocal symmetric matrix. No method dominates others in all criteria. Least squares methods perform best in point of mean squared errors; however, the eigenvectors method has an advantage in the minimum norm.

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