Title
A method for aggregating ordinal assessments by a majority decision rule
Abstract
A new method for aggregating ordinal assessments of individuals is proposed to obtain a collective preference ordering of alternatives. The method converts the ordinal assessments to collective pairwise comparisons of the alternatives and incorporates a deduction process to yield transitively consistent pairwise comparisons with respect to majority principle, and hence yields a linear order of the alternatives. Its algorithm is presented and its properties are studied. The method is applied to an opinion survey concerning quality of life, and a collective ordering of items pertaining to the quality of life is obtained with respect to their importance.
Year
DOI
Venue
1982
10.1016/0165-4896(82)90072-5
Mathematical Social Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Social choice,majority rule,fuzzy matrix
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0165-4896
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mitsuhiko Toda1580106.93
Kozo Sugiyama21011142.82
Shojiro Tagawa3570101.63