An Effective Approach to Input Variable Selection for Preliminary Cost Estimation of Construction Projects

Table 1

Linguistic terms and triangular fuzzy numbers.

Linguistic terms	Fuzzy number	Triangular fuzzy numbers
Equal important (EI)
Equal to moderate important (intermediate) (E-MI)
Moderate important (MI)
Moderate to strong important (intermediate) (M-SI)
Strong important (SI)
Strong to very strong important (intermediate) (S-VSI)
Very strong important (VSI)
Very strong to absolute important (intermediate) (VS-AI)
Absolute important (AI)