Supporting the multi-criteria decision aiding process: R and the MCDA package

Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA): testing a proposed MCDA framework for orphan drugs

BACKGROUND Since the introduction of the orphan drugs legislation in Europe, it has been suggested that the general method of assessing drugs for reimbursement is not necessarily suitable for orphan drugs. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence indicated that several criteria other than cost and efficacy could be considered in reimbursement decisions for orphan drugs. This st...

Aggregation of Priorities in Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA): Connecting Decision Spaces in the Cognitive Space

In Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, the well-known weighted sum method for aggregating normalised relative priorities ignores the unit of scale that may vary across the criteria and thus causes rank reversals. A new aggregation rule that explicitly includes the norms of priority vectors is derived and shown as a remedy for it. An algorithmic procedure is presented to demonstrate how it can as ...

Multi-Stage Technique 'Paks' for Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding

This paper describes a new multi-stage technique PAKS (the abbreviation of Russian words: Consequent Aggregation of Classi ̄ed Situations) for sorting multi-attribute objects by a group. Based on decision maker preferences, this technique provides a hierarchical aggregation of a large number of initial attributes into a smaller number of criteria, thus reducing the dimension of the attribute spa...

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) as the basis for the development, implementation and evaluation of interactive patient decision aids

Argumentation of the results of a multi-criteria evaluation model in individual and group decision aiding