SMCE window

Weigh   

 

 

Weigh multiple factors (benefits and costs) and optional groups under the main goal, and/or weigh multiple factors and optional groups under a sub goal. Assigning weights is needed in order to indicate the relative importance of these factors with respect to the main goal or to optional sub goals.

Dialog box options:

Direct Method:

The user has to specify weight values himself. These user-defined weights are automatically normalized.

Pairwise Comparison:

The user goes through all unique pairs and assigns Saaty weights (in words). From these weights, normalized weights are calculated.

Rank Ordering:

The user assigns a rank-order to the items. From this rank-order, normalized weights are calculated.

Tips:

A Weigh dialog box will appear:

  1. When you are in Multicriteria Analysis mode, and
  2. when you selected the main goal, or a sub goal, that contains multiple factors in the criteria tree viewer, and
  3. do one of the following:

Tips:

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