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The up and down arrow buttons. Move the selected member up
or down one spot in the ordering. LDW will ask you to improve a
member if you move it above one that is already improved and
will ask you to unimprove an improved member if you move it
below an unimproved member.
Minimum weights. The smarter method tends to assign very
low weights to members far down in the ordering. To prevent
this, you can use the minimum weight line at the bottom of the
spreadsheet to enter a minimum weight. LDW will assign the
minimum weight to all members with an importance greater than
zero. The minimum weight can have a value from zero to 1/n,
where n is the number of members.
Assessing Weights with the "Smart Method"
The "Smart" method lets you define the relative importances of
the active members using "swing weights." Swing weights are the
relative importance of changing a member from its least
preferred level to its most preferred level. You assign the most
important member a swing weight of 100 and less important
members swing weights between 0 and 100.
LDW will compute the weights for the members by adjusting the
swing weights so they sum to one.
To use this method, select it from the list of weight assessment
options in the assess weights dialog box and click the left "Assess"
button. When you do this, you will see a data entry screen like
the one in Figure 7-15.
Section 7 -- Using LDW 2: Assessing 7-35