COMBINING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE FACTORS - AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY APPROACH

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作者
WEDLEY, WC
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[1] Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
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加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1016/0038-0121(90)90028-6
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) provides a general theory of measurement for expressing both tangible and intangible factors. In this paper, intangible or qualitative factors are looked upon as dimensions which we have not yet learned how to measure very well. Through a redundant paired-comparison process. AHP allows us to translate qualitative preferences into ratio scaled data. In addition, the structuring stage of AHP facilitates problem understanding. © 1990.
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