analytic hierarchy
analytic hierarchy
[‚an·əl′id·ik ′hī·ər‚är·kē] (mathematics)
A systematic procedure for representing the elements of any problem which breaks down the problem into its smaller constituents and then calls for only simple pairwise comparison judgments to develop priorities at each level.
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