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- Page 15 and 16: Requirements and Installation Equip
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- Page 31 and 32: Initial Steps Before you can begin
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S E C T I O N Advanced Tutorial 5
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Truck Fuel Economy City Highway (mp
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Adding a Measure for Resale Value.
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9. Enter 100 in the edit box for "P
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1. In the Matrix view, double-click
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You can see the simulation results
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Figure 5-3. Example of Results::Alt
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1. Double click on the cell for "Pr
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Suppose you have a feeling that the
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percent show destructive interactio
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5-20 Section 5 -- Advanced Tutorial
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Using LDW 1: Structuring Introducti
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The Edit::Paste option. The Paste o
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Figure 6-1. Dialog box for View::Su
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The radio buttons below the goals l
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! Show Shadows -- toggle the displa
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takes place. The Edit::Cut option a
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! Define Probability -- this option
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the Matrix view, double clicking it
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The "Members" list is a list of all
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When you check the "Use Labels" box
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In particular, the levels you enter
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When you select this option, LDW re
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Figure 6-13. Example of a measure l
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When you select this option, LDW as
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to any particular measure level. A
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Adding a Measure Category. You can
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Figure 6-19. Example evaluation for
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Using LDW 2: Assessing Introduction
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Adding a Preference Set. You can ad
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Overview of Preference Assessments
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a constant change in utility. Linea
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The options associated with this as
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When you select the SUF::Delete Spl
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measure (in terms of expected value
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1. If you have made any changes to
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Figure 7-7. Dialog box for defining
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! Identify Outliers — Highlights
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Alternative HD size Utility Mail Or
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Assessing Weights The weights in a
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method uses a geometric approach to
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Figure 7-11. Assess tradeoffs dialo
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improving its level on the second m
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levels for the two members in the t
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dialog box. If you click "Redo", LD
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The up and down arrow buttons. Move
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Then identify the member you would
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Representatives are allowed for sub
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tradeoffs based on the AHP weights
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is defined, an additive MUF formula
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MUF formula, meaning that the activ
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! Adjust Weights for Set C Only. Th
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S E C T I O N Using LDW 3: Displayi
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Each of these displays can be selec
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After you press Enter, LDW will dis
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were done against price. When you s
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Figure 8-6. Example of Review::Trad
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with the highest overall utility. T
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you select this option, LDW will di
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Figure 8-12. Example of Review::Wei
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Figure 8-13.Example of Review::Weig
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Figure 8-14. Example of Review::Wei
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! Rank Alternatives ! Stacked Bar R
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Figure 8-17. Example of Results::Ra
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Figure 8-19. Example of Results::St
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Figure 8-21. Dialog box for Results
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In the window, the upper pane shows
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Figure 8-25. Example of Results::Se
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Figure 8-27. Dialog box for Results
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Figure 8-29. Dialog box for Results
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most benefit for your costs. You sh
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have significance, they just make i
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Cutoff Summary The Results::Cutoff
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you will see. If you select the "Sh
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LDW displays utilities greater than
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You can view an alternatives compar
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individual contributions can be gre
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Copying Graphics Images to the Clip
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! Change the display for the common
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The "Number of Trials" edit box con
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Figure 8-49. Dialog box for Prefere
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than its original size. Zoom percen
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Modifying individual graphic object
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Figure 8-53. Text font dialog box.
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Loading an LDW Analysis You can loa
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! Update and Append -- both modify
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When you have selected the correct
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then click the field to use to upda
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The option then proceeds automatica
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Figure 8-60. Preferences::Automatic
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S E C T I O N In Depth 9
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On the other hand, the weights of t
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Identifying Alternatives Alternativ
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Identifying and Defining Alternativ
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of the hierarchy be made up of eval
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The default is that measure levels
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categories' sites. For example, the
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objective measure levels and the mo
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no intrinsically correct shape for
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this truck B, and call the change f
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Figure 9-4. SUF curve resulting fro
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Figure 9-5 summarizes the process o
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other measures, including cost, and
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The second parameter, local risk av
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Each cell in the matrix represents
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always a complete set of utilities
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The utility of an alternative on th
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Different preference assessment met
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similar but more complicated if the
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The first member to be improved is
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decision maker to state importance
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It should be easier for a decision
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Figure 9-8 shows how a tradeoff can
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Figure 9-9. Example graph for trade
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This dialogue let us establish a tr
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Changing Weight Assessment Methods
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Figure 9-11. Extreme example of the
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Thus, proportionally increasing the
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The level of big K can result in se
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levels on the two measures are requ
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A: I could see where some people mi
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A: Wow, that's pretty complicated.
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If you enter a small k greater than
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Examples Introduction This section
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Figure 10-1. Goals hierarchy for co
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The next step was to assess prefere
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The first step was to identify a pr
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The definition of measures continue
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Construction Quality goal House Sel
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the task of evaluating potential re
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Many measures represented counts of
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Figure 10-11. Tradeoff "Bubble Diag
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Commands Summary AHP Menu This sect
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Edit::Add Lets you add a new object
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Help Menu File::Printer Setup View
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Main Menu Hierarchy::Show Assessmen
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Results Menu Preferences::Color Pre
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Review Menu The graph shows relativ
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SUF Menu Review::Weights::SUF Formu
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Window Menu your analysis. The many
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Glossary Active Member Alternative
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Destructive Interaction Efficient F
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Measure Category Member Monte Carlo
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Nominal Utility Point Estimate k i=
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Sample Small k SUF willing to accep
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Bibliography This brief bibliograph
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Appendix A
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for all measures i except 1 and 2.
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Index I
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