How to Make a Decision: The Analytic Hierarchy Process

@article{Saaty1990HowTM,
  title={How to Make a Decision: The Analytic Hierarchy Process},
  author={Thomas L. Saaty},
  journal={Interfaces},
  year={1990},
  volume={24},
  pages={19-43}
}
  • T. Saaty
  • Published 5 September 1990
  • Psychology
  • Interfaces
People make three general types of judgments to express importance, preference, or likelihood and use them to choose the best among alternatives in the presence of environmental, social, political, and other influences. They base these judgments on knowledge in memory or from analyzing benefits, costs, and risks. From past knowledge, we sometimes can develop standards of excellence and poorness and use them to rate the alternatives one at a time. This is useful in such repetitive situations as… 
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