Papers

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Paper results for keyword: Stability

Deriving the AHP 1-9 scale from first principles

Thomas Saaty
Journal: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
We demonstrate how the integers 1 to 9 used in the Fundamental Scale of the AHP to represent pairwise comparison judgments can be derived from stimulus-response theory. The conditions required for the stability of the eigenvector of priorities, known from the mathematics literature, are briefly m...

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