Table 1 Scale for pairwise comparison in the AHP29.
Intensity of the relative importance | Definition |
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1 | Two items are considered equally |
3 | One is considered slightly influential over another |
5 | One is considered strongly influential over another |
Reciprocals of above numbers | When the ith item compared to the jth item is assigned one of the above numbers, the jth item compared to the ith item is assigned to its reciprocal |