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. 2016 Jun 16;15:19. doi: 10.1186/s12942-016-0048-6

Table 1.

Scale used for pairwise comparisons in the analytic hierarchy process

Intensity of importance Definition
1 Equal importance
3 Moderately more important
5 Strongly more important
7 Very strongly more important
9 Extremely more important
2, 4, 6, 8 Intermediate values