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层次分析法（AHP）是一款帮助人们处理复杂的决定的结构完整技术。而不是一个“正确”的处方决策,提出了层次分析法的人。数学家们普遍认为是由托马斯·l . 萨蒂在二十世纪七十年代提出的。运用层次分析法（AHP）提供了全面的和理性的框架,为构建和量化问题,对代表它的元素时,有关那些元素总体目标、,并且评估可能的解决方案。它被应用于政府、商业、工业、医疗保健和教育等全世界范围的各种各样的决策情况中。………………

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外文出处： TL Saaty - Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library

Analytic Hierarchy Process

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for helping people deal with complex decisions. Rather than prescribing a "correct" decision, the AHP helps people to determine one. Based on mathematics and human psychology, it was developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s and has been extensively studied and refined since then. The AHP provides a comprehensive and rational framework for structuring a problem, for representing and quantifying its elements, for relating those elements to overall goals, and for evaluating alternative solutions. It is used throughout the world in a wide variety of decision situations, in fields such as government, business, industry, healthcare, and education.………………