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Zastosowanie miar odległości dla danych porządkowych do agregacji preferencji indywidualnych
The application of distance measures for ordinal data for aggregation individual preferences

Author(s): Artur Zaborski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: individual preferences; aggregation methods; distance measures; R software

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the classification of individual preferences aggregation methods and shows the methods which use the distance measures. Measures which can be applied to measuring the distance between different respondents preference relationship were discussed. The article describes measures which use preference distributions for all pairs of objects (e.g. obtained from pairwise comparisons), measures based on ranks and dis-tance measure using permissible transformations to ordinal scale (GDM2 distance). In the empirical part the example of individual preference aggregation was carried out by BruteAggreg function of R program.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 327
  • Page Range: 330-337
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish