Excluded-Mean-Variance Neural Decision Analyzer for Qualitative Group Decision Making

Table 2

Evaluation of factors (evidences) and pre-processing (excluded mean, excluded variance, and variance influence function) of each factor (evidence). (number of factors (evidences), 𝑚 = 14; number of evaluators, 𝑛=50.)

	Evaluation
	Evaluators					Preprocessing
Evidences (factors)	𝐸1	𝐸2	⋯	𝐸49	𝐸50	Excluded mean; (𝜇)	Excluded variance; (𝑣)	Variance influence function (VIF); (𝑓(𝛼𝑣)); (𝛼=1)
𝐹1	5	X	⋯	3	1	1.93	7.97	0.3
𝐹2	−1	X	⋯	−2	−8	−2.26	6.82	1.1
𝐹3	−1	5	⋯	X	1	2.61	9.98	0
𝐹4	X	1	⋯	−1	X	0.05	2.27	102.8
𝐹5	−6	−3	⋯	1	−4	−2.9	7.74	0.4
⋮	⋮	⋮	⋮	⋮	⋮	⋮	⋮	⋮
𝐹13	4	2	⋯	2	X	3.54	11.54	0
𝐹14	3	7	⋯	7	2	3.82	9.22	0

(“X” represents “irrelevant”. The complete table is presented in Table 3.)