| Article ID: | iaor19993064 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 404 |
| End Page Number: | 414 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1998 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan |
| Authors: | Shiraishi Shunsuke, Obata Tsuneshi, Daigo Motomasa |
| Keywords: | analytic hierarchy process |
The characteristic polynomial of a positive reciprocal matrix has some noteworthy properties. They are deeply related to the notion of consistency of a pairwise comparison matrix of AHP. Based on the results, we propose a method for estimating a missing entry of an incomplete pairwise comparison matrix.