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Comparative Study of AHP and Fuzzy AHP for Ranking of Medicinal Drugs

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Advances in Electronics, Communication and Computing (ETAEERE 2020)

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Evaluation of healthcare policies and taking decisions with regard to complex problems require assessments at many levels and by a group of experts. This paper studies the selection criteria and their weights for the five drugs for metastatic colorectal cancer treatment. A comparative value assessment of the drugs was conducted with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP) techniques of multi-criteria decision making. The ranking scores of all the alternative drugs have been examined and the implications of the vagueness in the decision making have been scrutinized for both the AHP and Fuzzy AHP.

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751024, India

    Utkarsh, Ritik Srivastava, Vansh Bhatia & Prasant Kumar Pattnaik

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Pradeep Kumar Mallick

  2. Department Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo, Sikkim, India

    Akash Kumar Bhoi

  3. Division of Information and Communication, Baekseok University, Cheonan, Ch’ungch’ong-namdo, Korea (Republic of)

    Gyoo-Soo Chae

  4. Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Kanak Kalita

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Utkarsh, Srivastava, R., Bhatia, V., Pattnaik, P.K. (2021). Comparative Study of AHP and Fuzzy AHP for Ranking of Medicinal Drugs. In: Mallick, P.K., Bhoi, A.K., Chae, GS., Kalita, K. (eds) Advances in Electronics, Communication and Computing. ETAEERE 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 709. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8752-8_17

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