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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2018 Apr 3;38(5):601–613. doi: 10.1177/0272989X18763802

Table 13.

Sensitivity and stability analysis results for Patient B

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Criteria
pair
Solution stability Stability
sphere
radius*
Core stability Direction of fastest
change
(perturbation
stability)
New
preferred
alternative
A1 A3 A10 A10 pi pj
C1–C2 - 1.1502 (28.76%) 2.8497 (71.24%) 0.4765 0.7133 (25.03%) −0.337 0.337 A3
C1–C3 - 0.9411 (23.53%) 3.0588 (76.47%) 0.4268 0.5723 (18.71%) −0.420 −0.076 A3
C1–C4 - 1.5476 (38.69%) 2.4523 (61.31%) 0.3979 0.4974 (20.28%) −0.266 0.296 A3
C1–C5 0.5816 (14.54%) 0.5723 (14.31%) 2.8460 (71.15%) 0.5860 1.0788 (37.91%) −0.586 0.006 A1
C1–C6 - 0.9066 (22.67%) 3.0933 (77.33%) 0.5849 1.0748 (34.74%) −0.580 0.076 A3
C2–C3 - 1.6898 (42.25%) 2.3101 (57.75%) 0.2682 0.2260 (9.78%) 0.252 0.092 A3
C2–C4 - 2.3139 (57.85%) 1.6860 (42.15%) 0.2016 0.1277 (7.57%) 0.120 0.162 A3
C2–C5 1.0256 (25.64%) 1.0930 (27.33%) 1.8813 (47.03%) 0.2874 0.2595 (13.79%) 0.244 0.152 A3
C2–C6 - 2.0670 (51.68%) 1.9329 (48.32%) 0.2612 0.2143 (11.09%) 0.208 0.158 A3
C3–C4 - 1.5992 (39.98%) 2.4007 (60.02%) 0.2479 0.1931 (8.04%) 0.076 0.236 A3
C3–C5 0.9207 (23.02%) 0.3538 (8.85%) 2.7254 (68.14%) 0.4451 0.6224 (22.84%) 0.032 0.444 A1
C3–C6 - 1.3108 (32.77%) 2.6891 (67.23%) 0.3971 0.4954 (18.42%) 0.176 0.356 A3
C4–C5 0.7728 (19.32%) 1.4062 (35.16%) 1.8209 (45.52%) 0.2600 0.2124 (11.66%) 0.244 0.090 A3
C4–C6 - 2.1197 (52.99%) 1.8802 (47.01%) 0.2424 0.1846 (9.82%) 0.214 0.114 A3
C5–C6 1.3252 (33.13%) 0.5602 (14.01%) 2.1145 (52.86%) 0.3711 0.4326 (20.46%) 0.320 0.188 A1
Min 0.5816 0.3538 1.6860 0.2016 0.1277
Min (%) 14.54% 8.85% 42.15% 8.04%
Max 1.3252 2.3139 3.0933 0.5860 1.0788
Max (%) 33.13% 57.85% 77.33% 37.91%
*

Calculated from the origin (0,0) where the most preferred alternative is A10.