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The "Reset" button deletes any assessment information for the<br />

active measure and returns its status to "Defaults Used." LDW<br />

will ask you to confirm before this is done.<br />

Finally, the "Assess" button begins the assessment process for the<br />

selected method.<br />

The following sections describe the assessment process for the<br />

various methods for converting measure levels to common units.<br />

Common Units Using SUFs<br />

When you select the "SUF" assessment method in the<br />

Assess::Common Units dialog box and click on the "Assess"<br />

button, you will see a graphical SUF assessment screen like the<br />

one shown in Figure 7-3.<br />

Figure 7-3. Initial screen display for assessing horsepower SUF.<br />

The screen shows a graph with the range of the measure on the<br />

horizontal axis. The vertical utility axis has a range from zero to<br />

one (assuming you haven't changed the utility range with the<br />

Preferences::Utility Options option). LDW displays the current<br />

SUF as a line or curve going from zero to one in utility and from<br />

the least preferred to most preferred level in the active measure's<br />

units. The SUF shows the utility associated with any level of the<br />

active measure.<br />

7-8 Section 7 -- Using LDW 2: Assessing

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