Practical Examples
Experienced practitioners know that the best way to understand the AHP is to work through cases and examples. Two detailed case studies, specifically designed as in-depth teaching examples, are provided as appendices to this article:
- Simple step-by-step example with four Criteria and three Alternatives: Choosing a leader for an organization.
- More complex step-by-step example with ten Criteria/Subcriteria and six Alternatives: Buying a family car.
Some of the books on AHP contain practical examples of its use, though they are not typically intended to be step-by-step learning aids. One of them contains a handful of expanded examples, plus about 400 AHP hierarchies briefly described and illustrated with figures. Many examples are discussed, mostly for professional audiences, in papers published by the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process.
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