A New Way to Analyze Paired Comparison Rules
Donald Gene Saari · Mathematics of Operations Research · 2014
The importance of “paired comparisons” has led to the development of several approaches. Missing is a common analytical way to compare techniques and explain properties. To do so, the approach developed here creates a “data space” coordinate system where data aspects that satisfy a strong transitivity condition are separated from those that represent “noise” as characterized by cyclic effects. With this system, paired comparison rules can be compared and paradoxical behavior explained.