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Inconsistency Indices and Their Properties

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This chapter provides a review of (cardinal) inconsistency indices, two systems of indices’ (desirable) properties, and an overview of satisfaction of these properties by selected indices. Further on, numerical studies on indices’ comparisons are presented and discussed as well.

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Mazurek, J. (2023). Inconsistency Indices and Their Properties. In: Advances in Pairwise Comparisons. Multiple Criteria Decision Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23884-0_3

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