data are not conditionally independent, the optimal weights to be used in a linear opinion pool are determined for problems …

agreement between the weights elicited with different methods. External validity was determined by the degree to which weights … elicited in this experiment agreed with weights that were elicited with managers of the Department of Energy. In terms of …

Three published approximation formulae for selecting the best multiattribute alternative based on rank-ordered weights … centroid (ROC) weights are more accurate than the other rank-based formulae; furthermore, the ROC formula generalizes to … incorporate both other forms of partial information about attribute weights and partial rank order information as well. Because a …