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these two fields to describe each measure. The comments field at
the bottom of the dialog box lets you provide a more detailed
description of your measure.
The "Goal Above" combo box identifies the goal directly above the
active measure in the goals hierarchy. You can change the
selection in this box to move the active measure beneath any other
goal in the hierarchy. LDW asks you to confirm this change when
you close the dialog box.
The items under the “Scale” tab describe the scale associated with
the measure.
The "Units" box is a text description of the scale of your measure.
LDW shows the units in many assessment and results displays.
The "Most Preferred Level" and "Least Preferred Level" boxes are
where you tell LDW the range for the measure. LDW uses the
range in converting the measure's levels to common units and in
some methods for computing the measure's weight.
A measure's scale is "increasing" if the most preferred level in the
range is higher than the least preferred level and is "decreasing"
otherwise. If levels in the middle of the range are more preferred
(or less preferred) than the levels at the ends of the range, you will
describe this to LDW in the Assess::Common Units option and you
can define either end of the range as the most preferred level in
the measure dialog box.
To help you define the measure's range, LDW displays the current
levels for the most and least preferred alternative.
The item labeled "Number of Categories," just tells you how many
measure categories are associated with this measure.
Cutoffs. The "Upper Cutoff Level" box lets you define a level
above which an alternative is unacceptable. Similarly, the "Lower
Cutoff Level" box lets you define a level below which an alternative
is unacceptable. These cutoffs do not affect any of LDW's
calculations. LDW simply marks measures failing one or more
cutoffs in the Results::Rank Alternatives and other options. You
can also get a summary of the alternatives failing cutoffs by
selecting the Results::Cutoff Summary option.
Labels. The items under the “Labels” tab let you define a scale
based on text descriptions rather than numbers.
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