Table 1 Scale of valuation in the pairwise comparison process.
From: Near-Earth object hazardous impact: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making approach
Labels | Verbal judgments of preferences between i and j criteria | Saaty’s scale |
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(EI) | Ci and Cj are equally important | 1 |
(S + I) | Ci is slightly more important than Cj | 3-1/3 |
(St + I) | Ci is strongly more important than Cj | 5-1/5 |
(VSt + I) | Ci is very strongly more important than Cj | 7-1/7 |
(Ex + I) | Ci is extremely more important than Cj | 9-1/9 |