| Article ID: | iaor20014081 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 128 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 532 |
| End Page Number: | 544 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2001 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Basak Indrani |
| Keywords: | statistics: decision, programming: multiple criteria, artificial intelligence: decision support, analytic hierarchy process |
In the Analytic Hierarchy Process, pairwise comparison values are elicited by a ratio scale representing a set of categories. In this article, we propose a method of statistical inference in AHP which pertains to cardinal representations of categorical variables. Relevant estimation and hypothesis testing procedures are addressed in this perspective.