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The Impact of the Scale Elements Alteration on Priorities in Analytic Hierarchy Process Technique


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The present study, presents a comparative analysis of different measurement scales adopted in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), by testing them versus a problem with a known composite answers. Then experimentally, the impact of the different measurement scale elements alteration from three aspects: 1. The limited scale upper bound (up to 9), 2. Changing the scale parameters (a parameters), and 3. Changing the system numbers (from 1, 3…9; to 2, 4…10) on priorities are investigated. The results show that the linear measurement scale has the best performance in comparison to other scales.

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AHP, Measurement Scale, Scale Elements Alteration.
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Mohammad Azadfallah
Business Studies and Development Office, Saipayadak, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Abstract


The present study, presents a comparative analysis of different measurement scales adopted in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), by testing them versus a problem with a known composite answers. Then experimentally, the impact of the different measurement scale elements alteration from three aspects: 1. The limited scale upper bound (up to 9), 2. Changing the scale parameters (a parameters), and 3. Changing the system numbers (from 1, 3…9; to 2, 4…10) on priorities are investigated. The results show that the linear measurement scale has the best performance in comparison to other scales.

Keywords


AHP, Measurement Scale, Scale Elements Alteration.

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